Left behind
PR dla Zagranicy
Jo Harper
20.07.2015 14:15
Three left-wing parties, all struggling in the opinion polls, have decided to form a coalition.
SLD leader Leszek Miller at an SLD press conference on 27 June in Warsaw. Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell
The Democratic Left Alliance, Your Movement and the Greens anounced on 18 July that they will run together in the 25 October general election.
Not all believe it will work out well.
“The left is paying for the fact that it is divided,” former president, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, said in a recent interview.
“There is no future in Poland for the left of centre […]. The political potential of the so-called left in Poland is about three-four percent,“ said Wojciech Jabłoński, a political scientist from Warsaw University.
Agnieszka Łaszczuk reports on whether these divisions have been healed.