Polish Parliament Votes to Give Ex-President Walesa a Pension
Legislators voted on Friday to grant Lech Walesa a pension as ex-president of Poland, paving the way for him to give up his old $250-a-month electrician’s job at a Gdansk shipyard that he pointedly resumed last week.
The lower house of Parliament voted 268 to 32, with 63 abstentions, to grant lifetime pensions to Walesa, former Communist military strongman Wojciech Jaruzelski and Ryszard Kaczorowski, who led a “government” in exile in London for more than 40 years after World War II to show that Poles would never accept Communist rule.
The net pension of each former leader will now be about $1,600 a month, the same as the current president’s basic pay.
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