Four-party appeal issued to form center-right senate election alliance

Members of four center-right parties have signed an appeal, calling for the formation of a single block that will fight the September elections to the senate, the higher chamber of parliament. The politicians, who belong to Solidarity Election Action (AWS), the Freedom Union (UW), Civic Platform (PO), and the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland (ROP) proposed that the four political groupings, all of which can trace their roots back to the Solidarity movement, should declare their support for a unified list of candidates for the election. They also urged that people who enjoy public trust should be put forward for election to the higher chamber of parliament, rather than candidates who are noted solely for their political activities. The appeal was signed by eight politicians, among them Minister of Foreign Affairs Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and former speaker of the senate, Andrzej Stelmachowski. (Zycie, p.5) A.D.