PO and PiS to consider alliance for Presidential election

The leader of the Civic Platform (PO), Jan Rokita, yesterday announced plans for an agreement with Law and Justice (PiS) in order to select one joint candidate to run in the coming Presidential elections. "The candidate will be agreed upon by both parties, and if I am selected, I will not be afraid to rise to the challenge," said Rokita in an interview, adding that a final decision will take some time to reach, and probably will not be made before the elections to the European Parliament. Other PO and PiS politicians believe that the idea of a joint candidate is Rokita's alone and that it does not have the wider backing of his own party. "Rokita is the politician who is most interested in securing cooperation between the parties," said one PO leader, adding that Rokita is letting PiS understand that his party is ready to support Kaczyński as Prime Minister, if Rokita is chosen as the joint Presidential candidate. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) A.K.