Poland
Polish Prime Minister asks dismissed financial minister to return to the government
Classified Polnews
Warsaw, Poland July 3, 2006 Having recently dismissed Minister of Finance, Zyta Gilowska, in his government, the Polish Prime Minister has apparently seen that he made a mistake and has asked her to return to the government. But he is not offered her the position of Minister of Finance again.
The Minister of Finance was dismissed when charges were filed against her for allegedly lying on a vetting statement. According to the Prime Minister he dismissed her because he was concerned that with the charges of lying being filed with the court the financial markets would react negatively.
Because she was dismissed and is no longer a public person, the vetting court dropped her case and she will not have her day in court to try to prove her innocence. The vetting court could have heard her case added being that her case was subject to special circumstances. But the court said that Gilowska did not even come to court so they could not hear her opinion on the issue.
Gilowska countered that she was not even notified by the court of this session and asked if they expected her to go to the court as nothing more than a gawker.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski took this as an opportunity to level criticism at another court and to say say that the vetting court protected the interests of some and vetted others.
As of Monday morning Gilowska had not notified the Prime Minister of her decision as to whether she will come back to the government or not. The Prime Minister at cheerily announced law on Saturday that he was awaiting her decision.
The public commentary that is following this affair is laden with questions.
The Prime Minister replaced Zyta Gilowska with a close associate and someone who was relatively unknown to the Law and Justice Party Leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski. Now that he is inviting Gilowska back into the government he does not want to give her back her old job. Did he find that the charges against her were a convenient way for him to put his man in the Minister of Finance? And now that the public is behind Gilowska and is politically correct to ask her to return to the government, why will he not give her old job back to her when he was previously so concerned about the financial markets reacting if she were to leave that job?
The Minister of Internal Security, Wasserman, said that there was some illicit involvement of some security services in Gilowska ' s dismissal. What was going on? Were they involved in the blackmail that Gilowska has alleged?
Where this case will lead is anyone's guess. And one will probably expect a press conference by Zyta Gilowska today to give the Prime Minister a public answer and drive the problem forward.
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