Dateline Warsaw - what's left of the Polish Left?
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
16.12.2011 18:00
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Dateline Warsaw :: 16 12 2011
In the studio we have Dow Jones Warsaw bureau chief Marcin Sobczyk, Daily Telegraph correspondent Matthew Day and on the line from London, the Economist magazine's Edward Lucas.
Presented by Peter Gentle
Welcome to another Dateline Warsaw, where foreign correspondents discuss the top news stores in Poland and beyond.
In this week’s show: thousands have took to the streets of Moscow and other cities in Russia protesting at what many have alleged were rigged parliamentary elections, which saw Vladimir Putin’s party returned to power once again.
Is this the start of a Russian Spring, or merely a Russian winter of discontent?
And the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) elected Leszek Miller as their new leader after another poor showing in the general election in Poland on 9 October. Leszek Miller was leader of the SLD before and was prime minister of the SLD-led coalition government between 2001 and 2004. Following a series of corruption scandals the left wing ex-communist party lost the 2005 election and has slumped in the opinion polls ever since, prompting many to wonder if it can ever form another government again.
So what’s left of the Polish Left? (pg)