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WARSAW--Polish Prime Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak said yesterday he is ready to resign and abandon his bid to form a new government so that the head of the smaller United Peasant Party, Roman Malinowski, can form a coalition government...
Walesa has been trying for a week to persuade the Peasant Party, led by Malinowski and aligned with the Communists in parliament, to join in a non-Communist coalition. Walesa has said he cannot support any government formed by Kiszczak...
Walesa announced August 7 he wanted to form a coalition government and his representatives began talks Thursday with Malinowski's United Peasant Party and the Democrats, the minor parties that hold the balance of power...
...United Peasant Party, which claims a membership of 500,000, has been allied with the Communists since its creation in 1949 after the forced merger of a pro-Communist Peasant Party and an opposition Peasant Party. It has been allowed to develop a more independent policy in the last decade, and about one-third of its 76 deputies support Solidarity...
Malinowski, 54, trained as an economist, has been leader of the Peasant Party since 1981 and in the previous term of the parliament served as speaker of the Sejm...