SLD members adopt apathetic attitude to verification process

The number of Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) members might be halved due to the verification process. The vetting procedures are resulting in strong protests and resistance from regional politicians. In many places the local party officials have refused to send out the questionnaires. Andrzej Żelazowski, co-founder of the SdRP and currently a normal member of SLD, said that nobody had yet approached him with a verification request, nor has he heard of the need to fill in a questionnaire. "Part of the older generation do not care at all about this verification process. They ask, how many times we have to sign in to this party. I believe that verification became an end in itself, we will carry it out, sum it up and announce its success," explained Żelazowski. In places where verification has commenced, it has become the norm that half of the party members do not bother to return completed questionnaires. According to Jerzy Szteliga, a former Opolskie voivodeship baron, admitted that in some regions the outflow of members is so large that the existence of some regional offices is now under threat. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A3) M.M.