- We have concluded the meeting of the Civic Platform's national board. We unanimously decided on the format of our participation in the 2019 parliamentary elections. We are entering these elections as the Civic Coalition, but not as a coalition of political parties. Instead, we are a coalition of all those who share our worldview, our vision for Poland, who want to defend democracy and the rule of law with us, and Poland's position in the EU. We want to open our lists, the Civic Coalition, to citizens, active individuals, social activists, experts, local government officials, and non-governmental organizations. We have sought and found a new formula for political expression for all that is currently active, offensive, principled, law-abiding, democratic, and European. We want a coalition of democrats and patriots. We want to be certain that all those who will actively help us change Poland will find a place on our lists. We will open up 20% of the places on our lists and reserve them for people from the civic opposition, non-governmental organizations, and all those who have not directly participated in parliamentary politics until now. We will make significant space for them, we will write our program with them, and we want to build this campaign together. We will also reserve and invite local government officials to our lists - stated Grzegorz Schetyna at a press conference.

- We will form joint lists for the Senate, and we will also allocate three spots – the fifth, tenth, and the last – to nominations from local government officials, all local government officials. Those who want to defend the idea of self-governance, its institutional independence, against the centralizing policies of the current authorities. We know this is a new formula. We know that no one has done this before. But we believe today that the formula of transactional party cooperation, of dividing the best spots among ourselves, that kind of politics has ended. Today, Poland needs and expects a new beginning from the opposition, from the largest opposition party. And this new beginning, we are writing today, by inviting all people of goodwill. Open, engaged, active individuals to our lists and to work together. Together, we will win - the Civic Platform chairman continued.