1.   A reformed party would have to win the approval of the people.

2.   Even once-popular Polish leader Lech Walesa was swept to defeat by a reformed leftist party last year.

3.   Voters exhausted by high inflation and unemployment have turned to reformed leftist parties promising fewer shocks and higher social welfare benefits.

4.   APTV looks at his reformed Communist party.

5.   APTV looks at the complex makeup of his reformed Communist party.

6.   Reformed Communist parties have won majorities in Hungary, Bulgaria and Lithuania.

7.   But it remains more hardline than most other reformed communist parties in eastern Europe.

8.   The East German-based reformed communist party voted against.