Another right-wing party enters Poland's splintered political landscape

A group of politicians belonging to the Solidarity Election Action(AWS) has created a new right-wing party called Przymierze Prawicy, or Right Alliance (PP). Its leader, Culture Minister Kazimierz Ujazdowski, says he hopes the PP will strengthen and consolidate AWS and says that only if "things go wrong" might it consider departing from the AWS. PP stresses that it would like to see AWS move farther to the right on the political spectrum, and warns that if politicians such as Janusz Tomaszewski were to gain a foothold in Solidarity's power structures, the newly formed entity may create its own block and move to recruit renowned right-wing leaders, such as the Kaczynski brothers, Marian Krzaklewski or members of the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland (ROP), to champion its causes. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A4) M.T.