Krzaklewski faces AWS opposition after slim showing in Presidential race

In the aftermath of Sunday's Presidential election, Solidarity Election Action (AWS) has split in two, with one part supporting and the other opposing party leader Marian Krzaklewski. Although Krzaklewski has called for abandoning open personal disputes, his words fell on the deaf ears of Jan Maria Rokita and Aleksander Hall, the heads of the opposing National Conservative Alliance (SKL) faction, who said Krzaklewski's days "are numbered". At the same time 14 other AWS members, including Krzaklewski's election team leader Wieslaw Walendziak, have expressed support for the party's head and called for resumption of dialogue to resuscitate the party. While some have called for a party referendum on the future of AWS, this is opposed by other AWS members, who called it "political illiteracy." Among the names of the potential new leader, Maciej Plazynski, the Sejm speaker, is most often mentioned. Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek, in an Internet chat on Tuesday, said he had more important things to which he would prefer to give his attention. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.1) J.K.