Warsaw (Reuters) – President Lech Walesa of Poland will ask Bronislaw Geremek, a former Solidarity adviser and a leader of the Democratic Union party, to form a government, a presidential spokesman said Friday.  

“The president thinks Professor Geremek should start political consultations aimed at forming a government,” the spokesman, Andrzej Drzycimski, said by telephone from Mr. Walesa’s home in Gdansk.  

The Democratic Union won the biggest number of seats in parliamentary elections on Oct. 27. Mr. Walesa has the right under law to nominate a prime minister who must be approved by the new National Assembly.