Leszek Miller, Poland's former prime minister from the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), wants to stand for elections to the European Parliament in 2009.

Head of the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance, Grzegorz Napieralski, told Polish Radio in Katowice this morning that the party will discuss the matter with Miller, who at present is not a member of the organisation.

The Dziennik daily writes in its columns today that Leszek Miller wants to come back to the Democratic Left Alliance, which he left in 2007 after internal conflicts. In the election last autumn Miller stood for the Self defence party but failed to get into parliament.

The paper also writes that the former prime minister wishes to relive 2001, when the SLD won a landslide victory in domestic elections in Poland. In the autumn the SLD received just 13 percent of the popular vote.

Speaking to the Polska daily, Miller believes that the Democratic Left Alliance should contain all leftist parties and create a common list for the election. "That is the only way we will have the opportunity to be present in the European Parliament," the former prime minister said.

Grzegorz Napieralski added in his interview that four left-leaning Premiers, Messrs. Belka, Cimosiewicz, Miller and Oleksy, and one president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, are now no longer part of the Democratic Left Alliance at all. Perhaps Leszek Miller's idea may be a good one for the restitution of leftist politics on the European stage.