AWS leader Krzaklewski back peddles on holding presidential primaries

Solidarity Election Action (AWS) leader Marian Krzaklewski has back tracked from an earlier statement that he was ready for primaries that would nominate the AWS candidate for President. According to Krzaklewski, the nomination of a candidate is the prerogative of the AWS national executive committee and not a luxury of the grassroots. The committee would therefore, decide during the upcoming convention the mechanism for selecting a candidate. If the convention fails to reach a consensus, the AWS leader, which effectively means Krzaklewski, will have no alternative but to select the Presidential candidate. Ironically he has already announced he will run for President. Krzaklewski will in this case be acting in accordance with the provisions of the AWS charter, which call on the leader to decide on matters where the majority of the delegates fail to agree on how a decision should be taken by a vote. (Rzeczpospolita, page A1, A2) S.M.