The League of Polish Families (LPR) and Andrzej Lepper’s Samoobrona are collecting signatures under a motion for the registration of a new political party, "Rzeczpospolita" revealed at the weekend.

The new party, or electoral alliance, is to be called League and Self Defence (LiS).

Lists with signatures are to reach Warsaw on Monday and a joint session of LPR and Self Defence parliamentary clubs’ executive committees has been announced for the same day.

Both parties will operate as two separate bodies until the end of the term in order to keep receiving their respective subsidies from state budges.

LPR’s leading spokesman Wojciech Wierzejski informs the parties will launch under a single banner in the next parliamentary election, but the merger of their parliamentary clubs may take place earlier. The daily reminds that the combined political parties can count on a total of 75 seats in the Sejm.

Roman Giertych’s and Andrzej Lepper’s parties have already announced their co-operation with the opposition in appointing an investigative commission to look into the circumstances of the Central Anticorruption Bureau’s operation against Andrzej Lepper.

When asked about who the leader of the new political body would be, ex-deputy PM Lepper said that "there could be two bosses. Me - balanced, calm and serious. Vice premier Giertych - eloquent, intelligent, witty”, Lepper convinced.

"Strong as a lion, cunning as [a] LiS" (“lis” stands for “a fox” in Polish) could be the election slogan of the new party according to Self Defence’s leader.

A poll has also been commissioned to investigate how the new initiative would be received by the public opinion and what support it could count on.

“I think that more than 15% is a feasible result”, thinks Andrzej Lepper.