PP and PiS join forces as Lech Kaczynski announces candidacy for Mayor

A right-wing party, Przymierze Prawicy (PP), has joined the Law and Justice (PiS) party. During the merger conference, PiS leader Lech Kaczynski officially announced that he would run for the position of President of Warsaw. "Warsaw deserves a power that would act differently," said Kaczynski. PiS invited to its congress the leaders of the Freedom Union (UW), the National Conservative Alliance-RNP (SKL-RNP) and the Civic Platform (PO). "Today the place for repairing and uniting the right is here, in the Law and Justice Party. There is no other political formation that can do this," said Artur Balazs of SKL. Among the 2,200 people from PP only 800 will find their place in PiS while many others left to join the Polish Family League (LPR). The new Law and Justice party will continue to be led by its present leader, Lech Kaczynski. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) A.D.