Plazynski, Tusk and Olechowski form new centrist-right political grouping

Maciej Plazynski of Solidarity Election Action (AWS), Donald Tusk of the Freedom Union (UW), and unaffiliated Andrzej Olechowski plan to announce today the creation of a new political formation. They are going to invite UW and some AWS factions, especially National Conservative Alliance (SKL), as co-operating parties. The new conservative-liberal formation has no official name yet. Assistants and supporters from Olechowski's Presidential campaign will back him. "What Poland needs is a modern right-wing. The whole UW should join forces with Olechowski and the SKL to build the new formation to eliminate this deficit of the political scene. If UW does not make this decision it will end up with a split," said Jacek Merkel of the UW. (Rzeczpospolita, page A.1) A.Z.