 In October Edward Ochab, the First Secretary of the Party and the Polish Prime Minister, proposed Władysław Gomułka election for the First Secretary of the Party during 8th Plenum meeting.Gomułka was a moderate who had been the First Secretary of the Party 1943–1948 and had been ousted and imprisoned in 1951 after "right-wing nationalist deviation" accusation by Stalinist hardliners' with Bierut.Gomułka proved to be acceptable to both factions of Polish communists