Plazynski named as leader of Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland

Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (PORP) is the new name of the second-biggest political party in the Sejm. Civic Platform (PO) decided to change its name to coincide with it being granted official status as a political party. The new leader is Maciej Plazynski, a member of PO's previous three-man leadership. A Warsaw court yesterday registered PORP as a political party, after a number of provisions in PO's by-laws that had been judged undemocratic, were modified. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5; Rzeczpospolita, p. C1) M.T.