bne IntelliNews - Poland's new treasury minister announced on June 17 that he will shelve plans to consolidate the power sector. At the same time, he promised to push forward projects to improve energy security and "repolonise" the banking sector - all elements in the government's populist push ahead of October elections. Appointed the previous day to replace Wlodzimierz Karpinski, who quit alongside several other senior members of the Civic Platform (PO) government in early June, Andrzej Czerwinski said he would not push through the merger of PGE, Tauron, Enea and Energia, which his predecessor had put forward last year. The treasury manages Poland's stakes in the country's large and powerful "national champions". Indeed, Czerwinski insisted he will make no radical moves in an election year, but will focus on carrying out important ongoing undertakings instead.