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...with Jaruzelski and proposed that Solidarity form a government. The new President said no. Instead he invited Solidarity to join a grand coalition government headed by the Communists. Walesa refused. Soon thereafter Jaruzelski stepped down as Communist Party leader in favor of Mieczyslaw Rakowski. The President asked Czeslaw Kiszczak, who has been Interior Minister since 1981, to form a new government. By Aug. 7, Kiszczak had still been unable to do so, and Walesa once again called for a Solidarity- led government. This time he pitched his appeal directly to the United Peasants and the Democrats...
...Kiszczak was elected prime minister August 2, winning a majority in Parliament despite opposition from the Solidarity caucus, which holds 35 percent the seats in the lower house...
...Kiszczak said he had been trying to assemble a cabinet, but Walesa's proposal "complicates and prolongs the process." He also said the Walesa proposal indicated the Solidarity leader's negative attitude toward any form of coalition government had eased, creating "new chances" for the "grand coalition" which he and the Communist Party have long advocated. For this reason, he said, he viewed Malinowski as having a chance for forming such a coalition government...
Mikolaj Kozakiewicz, speaker of the Sejm, said he did not know what the effect of Kiszczak's statement would be, but it was "a proposal...looking for another solution." He added that President Wojciech Jaruzelski must still accept Kiszczak's resignation and the parliament would still have to vote for Malinowski...
...Kiszczak in this way is presenting hisresignation.... In an elegant manner he is makingthe president realize that somebody else has to doit," Bentkowski said. "In my opinion, theproposition of Lech Walesa [for a Solidarity-ledgovernment] would be the best thing...