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The Democratic Party was formed on the initiative of Freedom Union chairman Władysław Frasyniuk, together with the social-democratic economist Jerzy Hausner, until recently a member of the governing post-communist Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ), and prominent Christian democrat, former UW member Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

It was since strongly supported, but thus far not yet officially joined, by then Prime Minister Marek Belka and centrist members of the Democratic Left Alliance.

Although it attracted considerable media attention and support from many Polish intellectuals, it received only 2. 5 % of the vote ( and no seats in parliament ) in the Polish parliamentary election in October 2005.