Dokument #1213141
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
For information on the activities of the
Polish Socialist Party (PPS), please see the attached articles from
Radio Free Europe Research. It was reported during the
lead-up to the June 1989 elections that the Socialist Party had
decided not to formally participate in the elections, but would
instead allow its candidates to be nominated by the Citizens'
Committee, the body created by Solidarity to wage its opposition
election campaign. [Anna Sabbat-Swidlicka, "Poland's Anticommunist
Opposition After the Round Table", Radio Free Europe
Research, 7 May 1989, p. 6.] The leader of the Polish Socialist
Party, Jan Jozef Lipski, was nominated for Senator by the
Solidarity-backed Citizens' Committee. [Ibid.] A splinter
group of the Party, the PPS-RD (RD the Polish acronym for
Democratic Revolution), boycotted the election campaign.
[Ibid., p. 8.] While it appears from the Radio Free
Europe Research bulletin authored by Sabbat-Swidlicka that the
PPS has attained the same legal status as Solidarity, the current
status of the PPS-RD is not clear to the IRBDC at the present
time.
No further corroborating information is
available in the published and publicly-available sources regularly
consulted by the IRBDC, regarding the status and activities of the
PPS and PPS-RD.