The left unite and try to woo Kwaśniewski to become their figurehead

The leaders of Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Wojciech Olejniczak and Polish Social Democracy (SdPl) Marek Borowski announced yesterday that these parties will run in the possible early elections together. "Nobody has done more to unite the left than Jarosław Kaczyński. The longer Law and Justice (PiS) is in power, the deeper the unification will be," said one SLD politician. Olejniczak and Borowski wrote in a statement, "We have to stop the Kaczyński brothers in their quest to gain absolute power not limited by law, public opinion or democracy… We can do that successfully only as a coalition." Politicians hope that the coalition would be later joined by the Labor Union (UP), Union of the Left (UL) and the Democratic Party (PD) headed by Władysław Frasyniuk. Olejniczak and Borowski hope that Aleksander Kwaśniewski would become the patron of the new political entity, as he still is the most popular person on the left, he is also the symbol of politics conducted less aggressively than the Kaczyński brothers'. PiS representatives claim that the coalition does not pose a threat to their strong position. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5) D.W.