Editing Leszek Miller (section)

==Later career==
In 2005, despite the support of the [[Łódź]] Branch of the [[Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)|Democratic Left Alliance]], Miller was not registered on the election list to the Parliament. At the same time, he was offered to run for Senate but refused. Retirement of the old activists was presented in media as “inflow of new blood into the Democratic Left Alliance”. After the election, Miller became active in journalism, writing mainly for the “Wprost” weekly on liberal economic concepts and current political issues. In the first half of 2005, he stayed at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., implementing a research project: “Status of the new Poland in the Eastern Europe’s space”.

In September 2007, Leszek Miller become affiliated with [[Samoobrona]], when he decided to run for the Sejm from their lists. In January 2008, at the first congress of the newly founded [[Polish Left]] party, he became its chairman. In December 2009, he submitted a membership declaration to the SLD. In January 2010, he resigned from the Polish Left and was admitted to the SLD in the same month. In 2010 he became a columnist of the Wednesday edition of "Super Express". In the parliamentary elections in 2015, he was not re-elected as an MP (the [[United Left (Poland)|United Left]], co-created by the SLD, did not pass the electoral threshold). He did not run for re-election as chairman of the SLD on 23 January 2016, and he was replaced in this function by [[Włodzimierz Czarzasty]]. On 8 March 2021, after the legally binding judicial re-registration of the Democratic Left Alliance to [[New Left (Poland)|New Left]] (as part of the final project of merging SLD and [[Spring (political party)|Spring]]), he announced his departure from the party.