What to do if Belka loses next week's vote sees SLD split itself apart, again

Leszek Miller and Józef Oleksy jointly claim the party's parliamentary club should try to form a parliamentary cabinet, with Miller telling the TVN24 news channel yesterday, "The SLD should not remain passive [if] the Sejm does not give Marek Belka a vote of confidence, but should try to find a candidate for [a new] Prime Minister." Miller then added that he did not exclude the possibility of appointing Jerzy Szmajdziński as the possible candidate. However, party leader Krzysztof Janik on Wednesday claimed the SLD should not engage in forming a parliamentary cabinet, but instead wait for the president to make the first move. (Rzeczpospolita p. A3) M.G.