However, in the 2000 presidential election its official candidate won only fifteen percent of the vote, and its founder only one percent.
It emerged from the successful alliance of Workers' Defense Committees against a surprise increase in food prices. Just seven years after it was banned during a period of martial law, it won 260 of 261 contested parliamentary seats in the 1989 elections. However, in the 2000 presidential election its official candidate won only fifteen percent of the vote, and its founder only one percent. For 10 points, name this opposition movement founded by an electrician at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, Lech Walesa.
It emerged from the successful alliance of Workers' Defense Committees against a surprise increase in food prices.
Independent Self-Governing Trade Union {Solidarity} [or Niezalezny Samorzad Zwiazków Zawodowych {Solidarnosc}]