NID: POLAND: NEW GOVERNMENT TO BE ANNOUNCED

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe: A 30-Year Legacy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06826768
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 26, 2019
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2019
• Publication Date: September 7, 1989

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POLAND: New Government To Be Announced
Premier Mazowiecki will present his cabinet nominations today, and
the Polish parliament is expected to complete its debate and confirm
the Solidarity-led government next Tuesday. The Communists will
retain the defense, interior, and, most likely, foreign affairs portfolios
but otherwise will yield their levers of control to Solidarity, which will
have a plurality of the more than 20 cabinet posts. Solidarity leaders
have insisted the hotly contested Radio and Television Committee
must be under their control. Solidarity's coalition partners, the
United Peasants and Democratic Parties, have been given significant
responsibilities; some Solidarity legislators have grumbled that they
were not adequately consulted in the selection of the cabinet.
Comment: Although a landmark event, the installation of the first
non-Communist government in Eastern Europe in more than 40 years
marks only one small step in a long, probably stormy transition
toward a more democratic Poland. The role of the premiership in
relation to that of President Jaruzelski will have to be sorted out.
and new Solidarity ministers will have to overcome the inertia of
entrenched, hostile bureaucracies. Mazowiecki has yet to fashion an
economic reform program acceptable to competing domestic groups
and to the international community. The Communist party has
grudgingly accepted its Irss of the government aril is not likely to
ease Mazowiecki's path.
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