Nine parties registered to take part in September's Sejm and Senate elections

The deadline passed at midnight on Tuesday for the registration of lists of candidates for the elections to the Sejm and Senate. The nine parties that have entered candidates for the September 23 poll are: the Democratic Left Alliance and Labor Union coalition (SLD-UP), Civic Platform (PO), Law and Justice (PiS), the Polish Peasants Party (PSL), Solidarity Election Action of the Right (AWSP), the Freedom Union (UW), the Polish Families' League (LPR), Samoobrona, and Alternatywa. A number of smaller parties failed to gather the 5,000 signatures necessary to have their candidates entered on each list. Other parties were disqualified after the registry committee found some of the signatures they had collected were forged, belonging either to dead people or to small children. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.K.