When will the government begin to respond to public opinion on privati zation?

According to the latest poll conducted by Rzeczpospolita, only 3% of the public believe that the remaining major state-owned companies should be sold to foreign investors. More than 80% claim that the state should be in control of power distribution companies. Public opinion on privatization has never before been this unfavorable. There are many reasons for this. F irstly, for many employees privatization equals unemployment, as new i nvestors make redundancies in a bid to improve profitability. Secondly, the media tends to only report on privatized companies when scandals begin to appear and ignore the positive aspects of privatization. Finally, some politicians who oppose the privatization process have easy access to the media and use their often good media skills to create a negative image of privatization. The State Treasury does not seem to be worried about such polls and does not intend to take any measures to change public opinion on privatization. The discussion over the privatization of Stoen, which r esulted in emotional scenes in Parliament, is to be debated by the Sejm today. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B1) K.Z.