The President may not like the budget, but he will be forced to accept it

Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz also admitted that several amendments are very unbeneficial for the budget. These include cutting the costs of servicing the foreign debt by zł.80 million and the national debt by zł.40 million. A sum of almost zł.196.3 million of expenditures will be earmarked for other projects than initially anticipated. Also the current expenditures of the Treasury Ministry were cut by zł.10 million. At the beginning of next week the bill will be discussed by the Senate, and only if no amendments will be submitted there, the bill would be sent to President Lech Kaczyński before February 1 and this means he would lose the right to call early elections. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 22; Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) A.K.