SLD tries to clean up its act ahead of EU elections

This will mean that at least eight regional party leaders, including Józef Oleksy, Andrzej Brachmański and Jerzy Jaskiernia, will have to step down. Such a move would not be possible without the agreement of the new leader. Krzysztof Janik. The SLD has also decided to maintain the SLD-UP coalition in the elections to the European Parliament. According to Prime Minister Leszek Miller, the SLD convention last Saturday turned out to be a "lost chance", as the party focused on its internal problems instead of stating what they wanted to do. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) A.F.