09.10.2005
POLAND'S ELECTIONS:
Adam Andrzej Slomka – An Eternal Fighter Against Dictatorship
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Simon Araloff, AIA European section
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At the age of 17 he paid by two years of his life for his struggle against the Communist security service and for the ideals of democracy and liberalism. In 2001 he went out with megaphone to the central square in order to protest against the visit to Poland of the President of the Ukraine Kuchma, whom he considered a dictator. The candidate without the real chances to become the President; however, he has very real chance to remain for many years one of the brightest politicians of Polish right camp.
Adam Andrzej Slomka was born on November, 23, 1964, in the Polish city of Cieszyn (Teschen) in Silesia (Województwo lskie), on the border with Slovakia. He has higher pedagogical education, obtained in the academy named by Jan Dlugosz in Czestochowa. He is married (his wife's name is Beata). Slomka came to the big politics very early. Already in 1981, at the age of 17 he joined the ranks of the youth wing of the so-called Confederation of independent Poland (Konfederacja Polski Niepodleglej, KPN). The Confederation, which existed by that time illegally for two years, actively recruited new members. Joining it was the sign of civic courage, since Communist authorities pursued its leaders, some which were condemned to several years of imprisonment. However, this circumstance did not stop the young Adam Slomka. The security service (SB) arrested him, and he spent two years in prison. .
By the end of the Eighties when the Confederation left the underground and started to operate legally, Adam Slomka already belonged to its elite. His doing time in prison became his ticket up – to the management of the organization. In 1991 Slomka was a vice-chairman of the party, and also was elected as its representative to the Sejm. When, several years later, KPN split for the second time (the first split took place in 1984), he headed the new political formation under the name KPN-Patriotic Camp (KPN-Obóz Patriotyczny). In 1997 Slomka carried out the functions of vice-chairman of a pre-election coalition of the right parties and movements Akcja Wyborcza Solidarnosc (AWS). One of his colleagues on a coalition at that time was Jan Rokita, the today's candidate on the post of Prime Minister from Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska). However Slomka's days in coalition were short - he left its lines soon after a victory in parliamentary elections, because of a disagreement with a nominee to the post of Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. Slomka publicly accused him of cooperation with security service of communistic Poland. According to his statement at that time, there are at least two documents kept in the archives signed by Buzek testifying of his cooperation with special services, to be exact – on receiving money by him for this cooperation. Other argument of Slomka was that Buzek, as a member of "Solidarity", couldn't leave the country several times if he did not cooperate with special services. However, Slomka's reasons had no effect, and Buzek became prime-Minister of Poland. And Slomka as it already was told, was compelled to leave the ranks of the right coalition. He remained a member of the Polish parliament up to 2001. In parallel Slomka also was the Polish representative in parliamentary assembly of the European Council.
Present presidential campaign is the first in the political career of Adam Slomka. He is a nominee of the so-called Polish Confederation - Dignity and Work (Polska Konfederacja - Godnosc i Praca). His major aims are the struggle against corruption, poverty and unemployment, free health services for persons with the income below an average in the country, and also creation of the system of social support for youth, single mothers and unemployed.
At the beginning of this decade Adam Slomka actively supported the Ukrainian opposition. In March 2001 , being a member of Parliament, he took part in a meeting of President Kwasniewski with the opponents of Leonid Kuchma's regime. When just a day after the meeting between Kwasniewski and Kuchma took place, Slomka arranged rough protest action. Having appeared with a megaphone under the windows of a building where a meeting was taking place, he shouted: "A state where there are political prisoners cannot be democratic, as it happens in Ukraine. The murder of the oppositional journalist is simply inadmissible. The standards of the European policy of freedom of speech are not fulfilled in Ukraine". Slomka enthusiastically welcomed coming of Viktor Yushchenko to power in Ukraine. According to the last polls, Adam Slomka's chances of a victory over today's presidential elections tend to zero.
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