Stormy weekend<BR>
"Communists have to leave!" and "SLD = KGB" were among the main slogans of Friday's protest organized by Jan Olszewski's right-wing Ruch Odbudowy Polski (Poland's Rebuilding Movement).
The demonstrators marched along
ul. Nowy Swiat and ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie toward the presidential palace, where they demanded Aleksander Kwasniewski's resignation.
Neither this demonstration, nor its follow-up led by Liga Republikanska (Republican League) interrupted Saturday's party convention of Social Democracy of the Polish Republic (SdRP), the post-Communist party. In spite of the pressures, the party elected outgoing Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy to replace Kwasniewski as party chief. Oleksy resigned last week amid accusations of Soviet and later Russian secret service.
"We were not listening to the noise outside," said Leszek Miller, SdRP's deputy chairman. "We gathered here to work," he added.
The demonstrators marched along
ul. Nowy Swiat and ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie toward the presidential palace, where they demanded Aleksander Kwasniewski's resignation.
Neither this demonstration, nor its follow-up led by Liga Republikanska (Republican League) interrupted Saturday's party convention of Social Democracy of the Polish Republic (SdRP), the post-Communist party. In spite of the pressures, the party elected outgoing Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy to replace Kwasniewski as party chief. Oleksy resigned last week amid accusations of Soviet and later Russian secret service.
"We were not listening to the noise outside," said Leszek Miller, SdRP's deputy chairman. "We gathered here to work," he added.
