Tomasz Uchman, spokesperson for the National Bank of Poland, announced that there will be no discrete devaluation of zloty against the dollar this year. The zloty's exchange rate is adjusted in a crawling devaluation. The president then administered the oath to the prime minister and the new cabinet members. Pawlak is to present the policies of his government on 8 November. The parliament will then vote whether or not to accept Pawlak's government.
Today is the first session of the new cabinet.
A retired employee of the Ministry of Interior is accused of spying for the former Soviet Union. The Russian military attache recently expelled from Poland was probably his superior. The Constitutional Tribunal upheld and ruled legal the government's decision to limit the salaries of government officials. This has to be approved by the general assembly of the KLD in November. Yehudi Menuhin conducted Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in the National Philharmonic.