The Civic Platform prepares for battle to win power in 2005

By the end of December Civic Platform (PO) are to prepare a full economic pr ogram for Poland, and by the next year it might demand amendments to the Con stitution or might even propose its own version of the document. All of thes e will be made in order to create the strongest right-wing party and to pres ent its own candidate for the post of the Prime Minister in two years time. PO also hoped that it could gain wide social support, which would allow it t o invite Law and Justice (PiS), or even the Polish Peasants Party (PSL) and Polish Family League (LPR), to the ruling coalition. "According to us Jan Ro kita is the person, around, which one could create a new ruling coalition af ter taking power from the Democratic Left Alliance, (SLD)," stressed PO repr esentatives. They also claimed that even if the situation kept on improving , the right wing would take over power in two years. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1 , A3) M.M.