Will fining deputies be enough to curtail unruly parliamentary behavior?

On Friday the Parliament Speaker, Marek Borowski, presented amendments to parliamentary regulations, in which he suggests depriving deputies of up to half of their annual salaries and allowances for disrupting the parlia mentary sittings. At present a deputy's salary is zl. 8,980 gross, while the allowance constitutes 25% of this sum. Other amendments include empowering the Marshal's Guard to carry out requests to maintain order in the chamber. Borowski said that due to the behavior of some deputies in parliament it is necessary to take measures to prevent them from blocking the work of p arliament. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3, April 20-21) K.S.