Krzaklewski yields to pressure saying Presidential primaries are an option

The national convention of labor union Solidarnosc has backed the candidacy of their leader Marian Krzaklewski for President. Krzaklewski said in a radio interview later that a decision on whether to organize primary elections that will nominate a candidate for the entire right, would be put to a vote during the upcoming convention of the Solidarity Election Action (AWS). The announcement has been welcomed by leaders of some affiliate parties of AWS, such as National Conservative Alliance's (SKL) Jan Maria Rokita and Aleksander Hall who claim Krzaklewski is unacceptable both to the coalition partner Freedom Union (UW) and the electorate. They assert primaries may give a chance to the influential Sejm speaker Maciej Plazynski, the only politician on the right capable of threatening the re-election of the incumbent Aleksander Kwasniewski. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 1) S.M.