Enthusiasm appears to be on the wane for Buzek's new political party

President Aleksander Kwasniewski's signing of a new election law favoring minor parties appears to have led to a cooling of enthusiasm for joining the new party created on the initiative of prime minister Jerzy Buzek. Buzek, as leader of the Solidarity Election Action - Social Movement (RS-AWS), together with Antoni Tokarczuk of the Polish Christian Democratic Party (PPChD), announced the creation of the new party last Saturday. However, as yet no members of the Conservative-Peasants Party (SKL) have announced their intention to join. Buzek's proposal to the Freedom Union (UW) and its leader Bronislaw Geremek that they join the coalition has not been rejected. But Marian Krzaklewski, leader of the Solidarity movement, was extremely skeptical about the new party from the very beginning. He is quoted as saying that the idea has sense only if the entire Solidarity Election Action (AWS) will join it. The Christian National Union (ZChN) has already rejected the possibility of joining, and the Right Wing Alliance (PP), which supports Krzaklewski, is reported to be waiting for a new initiative by Buzek. According to the PP, if the prime minister does not change the new party's objectives, they are ready to create an alternative right wing party made up of the ZChN, the PP itself, the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland (ROP), and the "Law and Justice" committee of the Kaczynski brothers. Krzaklewski would be the most likely leader of this new political grouping. (Zycie 5th-6th May, p. 4) A.D.