Polish P.M. abruptly sacked
NZPA-Reuter
Warsaw
A big Government shakeup will follow the removal of the Polish Prime Minister (Mr Piotr Jafoszewicz) and the sacking of three other top Politburo members last week.
.Mr Jaroszevtficz, who had been Prime Minister since 1970, lost his job and all his party posts in a dramatic move at the end of Poland’s eighth post-war Communist Party congress. No such upheaval had taken place in previous congresses, which are designed primarily as showcase meetings- u But dire economic problems caused a power struggle in the higher ech-
elons of the party and forced its leaders to make a bold break with the past. The changes at the top, left the party leader, Edward Gierek, in what appeared, to be a stronger position. The Government of Mr Jaroszewicz' came under incessant fire during the fiveday congress for its shortcomings, and in what was a coldly calculated ploy the 70-y ear-old former prime minister was not given a chance to reply to his. critics.
One of Mij Gierek’s close friends and collaborators, Mr Edward Babiuch, aged 53, was expected to take over the Prime Ministership during a special session of Parliament today.
Polish P.M. abruptly sacked
Press, 18 February 1980, Page 8
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