Supreme Court stacked against women
1991Gerry Foley 1991-11Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 1 →
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What the capitalists feared, happened in the first "free" Polish elections, held on Oct. 27. Voters roundly rejected the capitalist restorationist policies of the parties representing the middle-class elite that took over Solidarnosc and, consequently, responsibility for running the government.
Only 40 per cent of the population even bothered to vote. The process that began with the humiliation of Tadeusz Mazowiecki in the November 1990 presidential elections continued and deepened.
Mazowiecki was the premier of the first non-Communist government, which launched austerity policies and the plan for returning to a capitalist market economy.
In the presidential elections, he was not only overwhelmed by Lech Walesa, the historic leader of Solidarnosc, but by an obscure adventurer, Stan Tyminiski, who managed to tap the resentments of an important part of the working class— especially the younger workers-against the government policy.
In the Oct. 27 elections, Mazowiecki seems to have gotten at least a small morsel of revenge over Walesa. Initial projections of the vote credited his Democratic Union party with 13 percent of the vote.
That is well ahead of Walesa's party, the Center Alliance, which seems to
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reveal opposition to pro-capitalist policies