 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.The core of the Democratic Party is made up by the members of the Freedom Union ("Unia Wolności", UW), which had so far been the most important Christian democratic group in the Polish political landscape.