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Unemployment was rising again and the general economic outlook looked unfavourable as parliamentary elections approached. One survey recorded the lowest level of consumer confidence since June 1993, with fear of unemployment a crucial dimension of this new pessimism (Rzeczpospolita, 26–27 May 2001). Floods in the summer, revelations of the depth of crisis in the public finances, and new corruption scandals brought no respite to the rudderless government. The Election of 2001 The SLD’s victory in September 2001 thus came as no surprise.
For the Western allies, preoccupied with the final defeat of Germany and Japan, keeping Stalin on side in the last months of the war was the priority. By the time they turned their attention to the situation in Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the war, the Western allies’ national capacities and their will to intervene to avert the consolidating Soviet grip over the region were exhausted. The main result of belated efforts on the part of the new US administration under Truman to ‘roll back’ communism in Europe was to prompt Stalin to seal off the Central and East European states that his troops had occupied behind an ‘Iron Curtain’.
Mazowiecki’s third-place showing in the first round of the presidential election in 1990 led to his immediate resignation. Yet despite Walesa’s promises to mitigate the impact of economic changes, Krzysztof Bielecki’s new government followed the same trajectory of economic reform, still under Balcerowicz. Drafting a new constitution, however, needed the democratic legitimacy of a freely elected parliament. 1 Polish prime ministers, 1989–2002 Prime Minister Affiliation Tadeusz Mazowiecki Solidarity/ROAD* September 1989– Resigned after December 1990 defeat in presidential election.