The World : Solidarity Seeks Coalition

Solidarity leader Lech Walesa urged allies of the Communist Party to switch their allegiance to his independent movement and join Solidarity in creating a non-Communist government. “The only political solution in the present situation is the creation of a Council of Ministers based on a coalition of Solidarity, the ZSL (United Peasants’ Party) and the SD (Democratic Party),” Walesa said in Gdansk, Poland. “And for this I shall strive.” Walesa reiterated his opposition to any government led by the newly elected premier, Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak. Without the partnership of the two minor parties, the Communists do not form a majority in Parliament. Solidarity has rejected the idea of a coalition with the Communists.