Polkowski accepts appointment to head Tomaszewski's election campaign

Jozef Polkowski has been named to head the election campaign of Janusz Tomaszewski, after several of Tomaszewski's key supporters left the Solidarity Election Action (AWS) and formed a new parliamentary club. In accepting the appointment as chief of election staff Polkowski, until recently a close associate of Marian Krzaklewski, said he had been persuaded to take up the position because he did not believe in the accusations made against Tomaszewski that he had served as a secret agent of the communist security service (SB). Therefore, he felt obliged to defend Tomaszewski, something that he suggested Krzaklewski should also do. However, not all of his supporters within the AWS have followed Tomaszewski. Deputy Kazimierz Barczyk, a key AWS figure in Krakow, has decided to remain with the party. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 7) K.K.