UW proposes enfranchisement bill funds go to subsidize education if vetoed

The Freedom Union (UW) is proposing that instead of the enfranchisement bill the government should help the education sector. The money reserved for enfranchisement, zl. 10 billion estimates former Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz, collected from the sale of state-owned companies should be used to allow underprivileged students, especially for rural areas, to get a degree. UW is already collecting the needed 100,000 signatures. The idea will be voted in Sejm if the President vetoes the enfranchisement bill. Then it must gain support from other parties. Solidarity Election Action (AWS) and the Polish Peasants Party (PSL) are against the idea, AWS leader Marian Krzaklewski said it would create unnecessary confusion, only the Democratic Left Alliance would perhaps support it. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 1,2,3)