Coalition finds agreeable candidate for National Memorial Institute head

Independent Senator Leon Kieres with affiliations to the ruling Solidarity Election Action (AWS) has been nominated to head the National Memorial Institute (IPN). His candidacy however, must be put to a vote in the Sejm but the vote is just a formality as most deputies from other parties such as Freedom Union (UW), Polish Peasant Party (PSL) and the entire AWS have pledged to support Kieres. A chance has at last emerged that IPN, which is the custodian of the communist secret service files, would begin operating. Earlier nominees failed to attract the required three-fifths vote in the Sejm. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 4) S.M.