After a Tuesday meeting with the libertarian Palikot's Movement (RP), former Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski said he wants to participate in forming a center-left coalition, which would be an alternative to the ruling Civic Platform (PO).

“By the next parliamentary elections, I plan to have helped create a center-left coalition. The plan is to include valuable people and to send a signal to the leftist electorate that there is an alternative to the ruling PO,” Mr Kwaśniewski told journalists.

Mr Kwaśniewski also said that in February 2012 he plans to meet with leftist groups like RP, Women's Congress (KK), Political Critique (KP), as well as with ecology activists, to talk about the future of the left.

“[Mr Kwaśniewski] gave me the mandate to organize the meeting on [his] behalf in February between RP, the Democratic Left Alliance, Political Critique and the Women's Congress, to mark the start of the process of uniting the left,” Janusz Palikot, RP's leader, told the press.

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