Lech Walesa to run for president in 2000, calls early elections inevitable

Walesa is also calling for earlier parliamentary elections as the growing social discontent evidenced by the unrelenting demonstrations among farmers, paramedics and miners signal that change is inevitable. Walesa also added that he would soon be meeting the leader of the ruling Solidarity Election Action (AWS) Marian Krzaklewski, to provide a recipe to cure the ills that have besieged Poland. (Rzeczpospolita, page 1, 2, Zycie, 1)