WORLD : Solidarity Won’t Join Communists
Solidarity’s 259-member parliamentary caucus voted unanimously today against letting members join a Communist-led government and its leader vowed to press a legislative drive for greater freedom in Poland.
On Tuesday, Lech Walesa, the chief of the independent union, told President Wojciech Jaruzelski that Solidarity would not join a coalition dominated by Communists but that Solidarity members could join as individuals.
The parliamentary caucus, however, heeded a call by the legislative body’s leader, Bronislaw Geremek, not to allow this. It also voted 255, with four abstentions, against Solidarity as a movement joining a Communist-led coalition.
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