SLD puts on show of unity in bid to rally support as elections draw close

"We can admit to making mistakes and we are ready to fix them," announced Oleksy, who added that the party's main weakness was the label that it was given by the public that it is a "party of scandals". The SLD leaders also repeated their support for autumn elections in order to successfully conduct the referendum on the European Constitution. This was the first SLD press conference in a long time where journalists had a chance to see Oleksy and Janik together as Janik is the head of the so-called internal opposition in the party. In relation to this, several days earlier Janik announced that 43 out of 148 SLD deputies should never represent the party during elections?. Oleksy also added that Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz is becoming the party's most serious candidate in the Presidential elections. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6) A.K.