----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:49 AM Subject: [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Warning To Would-Be Walesas STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK http://www.telegraph.co.uk (International) Daily Telegraph ISSUE 1964 Tuesday 10 October 2000 Poles spurn Walesa with 0.8pc of vote By Matthew Day in Warsaw THE career of Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity leader, was in tatters yesterday after a crushing defeat in Poland's presidential election. The man chiefly responsible for ending communist rule polled a mere 0.8 per cent of the vote. His humiliation was all the more painful because Aleksander Kwasniewski, who was re-elected, is a former senior apparatchik. He had 54 per cent of the vote. Mr Walesa polled less than Andrzej Lepper, a populist farmers' leader, and ended up in seventh place. The result indicates how low Mr Walesa's popularity has fallen since the last presidential election five years ago, when he lost to Mr Kwasniewski in the second round by 500,000 votes. Poles have been increasingly alienated by what many see as Mr Walesa's unsophisticated and confrontational style. The qualities which proved so effective in combating the communist regime are felt to be unsuitable now. His opponents proved to have far greater mastery of television and sound bites. Mr Walesa told reporters that, despite the result, he had no intention of retiring. That was not his style, he said, and he would be ready to help his country again if necessary. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your business more productive! Instantly automate routine business tasks like payroll, time cards, expense reports, invoices, purchase orders, business forms and more - for free! Try Freeworks.com today at http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/Freeworks
