Show for unity for the media and campaigners as local elections approach

Maciej Plazynski, the Civic Platform (PO) leader and Lech Kaczynski of the Law and Justice (PiS) party inaugurated their parties' joint national election campaign in Wroclaw on Sunday. "The PO-PiS coalition means not only common candidate for mayors, it also means hundreds of alliances at all levels," Kaczynski said, at the same time admitting that in many big cities, including Warsaw, the two parties were unable to reach an agreement to support a joint candidate. "In the second round however, we have agreed to switch allegiance to whichever candidate will stay in the game," Plazynski said. The two leaders were very critical of the government, claiming it is even losing the support of its own party faithful. "Only the Civic Platform and Law and Justice are capable of opposing the leftist government and winning the 2005 Parliamentary elections," Kaczynski told his supporters at the rally. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.K.