Solidarity calls on its supporters to vote against constitutional draft

"The National Committee calls its members to mass participation in the referendum and to vote against Parliament's draft of the constitution," union chairman Marian Krzaklewski told a news conference. "It is difficult to find in the approved draft values cherished by the union members," he said. "There is no clear call to God in its preamble, and no full guarantees for human life as of its conception are given." If approved on May 25, the constitution would take effect three months after President Aleksander Kwasniewski signs it, replacing the 1953 Stalinist-era charter. (Reuters, Zycie, page 2)