Word: geremek
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Solidarity leaders said afterward that Jaruzelski had accepted "in principle" their offer to form a government. The coalition proposed three Solidarity candidates: Mazowiecki, Bronislaw Geremek, the movement's parliamentary leader, and Jacek Kuron, a senior adviser. It soon became clear that Mazowiecki was Jaruzelski's choice. Said the Prime Minister-designate as he rushed from one meeting to another: "The most difficult task will be to make people think that ((life)) can be better -- even though it cannot be better immediately...
...Solidarity's participation in a grand coalition would require more talks," said senior union adviser Bronislaw Geremek. He said no proposal had been forwarded...
...pact could still falter on the question of economic reform. Solidarity wants wages to be indexed to the inflation rate, currently 70%, and price increases for food and other necessities to be introduced gradually. Even so, said Solidarity representative Bronislaw Geremek, "after 45 years in a political desert, we suddenly find ourselves in a completely new situation...
Solidarity therefore resolved to overhaul the country's crumbling economic system and to share with the government in running it. "We wanted to make the authorities accountable to society," explained Bronislaw Geremek, Walesa's chief theoretician. As a start, the union decided to attack the corrupt and inefficient nomenklatura system, under which the government chose plant managers not for their skills but for their loyalty to the party. The union's stratagem: force the government to approve a system of self-management for the factories that would allow workers' councils to choose their own managers. Even Walesa was skeptical about...