SLD plays the blame game with ruling coalition over deteriorating economy

During an unexpected press conference Saturday, Leszek Miller the leader of Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) called for the government to take decisive steps to improve the economic situation in Poland. Over the last two years all major economic indicators are down. The growth has slackened, the unemployment, inflation, public debt and the current account deficit are growing said Marek Borowski. SLD leaders maintain the current coalition has no concept for the economic recovery and by introducing several reforms simultaneously has squandered billions of zloty. Government spokesman Krzysztof Luft said the economy would have done better had it not been for the public debt incurred in the 1970s and 1980s and abandoning the reforms between 1993-97, when SLD was in power. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 26) P.S.