Half a Million Poles Back Walesa Candidacy
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa upstaged his presidential rival Tadeusz Mazowiecki on Tuesday by presenting half a million signatures backing his candidacy for next month’s Polish elections.
Walesa’s campaign chief said he presented the national election commission in Warsaw with sacks of signatures--at least 500,000 names and five times the number required to register as a candidate. Prime Minister Mazowiecki registered last Wednesday with about 140,000 signatures.
The number has only symbolic importance, but Walesa deliberately waited a week longer to register in order to upstage his rival.
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