Polish Coalition Koalicja Polska | |
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| Parliamentary leader | Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz |
| Chair | Vacant |
| Deputy chairs |
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| Founded | 4 July 2019 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Third Way (2023–2025) |
| Members | |
| Sejm | 31 / 460 |
| Senate | 7 / 100 |
| European Parliament | 2 / 53 |
| Regional assemblies | 54 / 552 |
| City presidents | 1 / 107 |
| Website | |
| koalicjapolska | |
ThePolish Coalition (Polish:Koalicja Polska,KP) is apolitical alliance inPoland. It is led by thePolish People's Party.
It was formed in 2019. In the2019 parliamentary election, the Polish Coalition placed fourth, winning 30 seats in total. Its2020 presidential candidate wasWładysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, who placed fifth in the first round. The coalition adheres to principles ofChristian democracy,[1] andconservatism.[2] The coalition also adhered to agrarianism, but the Polish People's Party has since then shifted away from this ideology.[3][4] It has been described ascentrist[5] andcentre-right.[6][7][8][9]
The coalition was first mentioned on 4 February 2019, at a press conference as a union of thePolish People's Party (PSL), theUnion of European Democrats (UED) andModern (N). The idea was supported by former mayor ofWrocław,Rafał Dutkiewicz.[10] In theMay 2019 European Parliament election, the PSL, Modern and UED participated in theEuropean Coalition, which included centre-right, centrist and centre-left parties.
The PSL general council decided to build the Polish Coalition, acentre-right coalition, on 1 June of that year.[11] The desire for a coalition was first declared by theLeague of Polish Families (LPR)[12][13] and the UED.[14] The PSL also held talks withKukiz'15, theRight Wing of the Republic and theNonpartisan Local Government Activists movement, and invitedCivic Platform (PO).
The PSL-UED parliamentary coalition changed its name to PSL-Polish Coalition on 4 July 2019, and was joined by former members of PO (Marek Biernacki andJacek Tomczak) andModern (Radosław Lubczyk).[15] Two days later, the PSL general council announced that an alliance with PO is a coalition priority.Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed UED cooperation.[16]
On 23 July, the PSL's Piotr Zgorzelski confirmed that theAlliance of Democrats andLabour Party were part of the coalition and talks withKukiz'15 and Nonpartisan Local Governments Association were cordial and would end soon.[17][18] A week later,Marek Sawicki confirmed that theAssociation of Catholic Families had joined the coalition.[19][20]
TheSilesians Together party and the Jura-Silesian Association European Home joined the coalition on 5 August 2019.[21] Three days later (after losing several MPs),Kukiz'15 joined the coalition.[22] One member each from Civic Platform and theLeague of Polish Families (LPR) were also on the PSL list, despite those parties not belonging to the coalition.[23][failed verification]
In the2019 parliamentary election, the PSL received 8.6 percent of the vote; an improvement compared to the2015 parliamentary election. The coalition gained 30 seats in theSejm: 20 from the PSL, six from Kukiz'15, one from the UED, and three independents. It also gained threesenators: two from the PSL and one from the UED.
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz of the PSL became coalition's candidate for the2020 presidential election. He received 459,365 votes which was 2.4%, coming fifth among eleven candidates[24]
On 26 November 2020, the General Council of PSL ended coalition with Kukiz'15, after 5 of 6 MPs of K'15 voted in favour of government's veto on European budget.[25] Parliamentary club has its changed its title to Polish Coalition - PSL, UED, Conservatives.
5 politicians of Kukiz'15 withPaweł Kukiz has formed their own group in parliament,Agnieszka Ścigaj (who voted as PSL in case of veto) became independent MP. She joined PSL parliamentary group, but later she resigned from this political group and became unaffiliated MP.
In 2021 Polish Coalition started unofficial cooperation withPolish Affairs andAgreement,[26] and decided to talk withPoland 2050 and more conservative local activists ofCivic Platform about possibilities of creating centre to centre-right political faction in Poland.
On 2 May 2022Ireneusz Raś (a conservative dissident fromCivic Platform) and independent MPs of Polish Coalition (former Civic Platform and Modern members) created conservative, Christian democraticCentre for Poland.[27]
On 28 February Polish Coalition signedSenate Pact agreement with other opposition parties.[28]
On 27 April 2023 Polish Coalition became a member of wider centristThird Way alliance withPoland 2050 ofSzymon Hołownia.[29][30][31]
| Name | Ideology | Position | Leader | MPs | Senators | MEPs | Sejmiks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polish People's Party | Christian democracy Conservative liberalism | Centre-right toright-wing | Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz | 19 / 460 | 2 / 100 | 3 / 51 | 66 / 552 | |
| Union of European Democrats | Liberal conservatism Social liberalism | Centre tocentre-right | Elżbieta Bińczycka | 1 / 460 | 1 / 100 | 0 / 51 | 1 / 552 | |
| Silesians Together | Silesian regionalism | Centre-left | Leon Swaczyna | 0 / 460 | 0 / 100 | 0 / 51 | 0 / 552 | |
| Centre for Poland | Liberal conservatism | Centre-right | Ireneusz Raś | 3 / 460 | 1 / 100 | 0 / 51 | 0 / 552 | |
| Agreement | Liberal conservatism | Centre-right | Magdalena Sroka | 3 / 460 | 1 / 100 | 0 / 51 | 6 / 552 | |
| Fair Play Country | Conservative liberalism | Centre-right | Jolanta Milas | 0 / 460 | 0 / 100 | 0 / 51 | 0 / 552 | |
| Independents: | 1 / 460 | 0 / 100 | 0 / 51 | 2 / 552 | ||||
| Former members | ||||||||
| Kukiz'15 | Right-wing populism | Centre-right to right-wing | Paweł Kukiz | 4 / 460 | 0 / 100 | 0 / 51 | 0 / 552 | |
| Name | Ideology | Position | Leader | MPs | Senators | MEPs | Sejmiks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polish People's Party | Christian democracy Conservative liberalism | Centre-right toright-wing | Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz | 27 / 460 | 4 / 100 | 2 / 53 | 54 / 552 | |
| Centre for Poland | Liberal conservatism | Centre-right | Ireneusz Raś | 3 / 460 | 1 / 100 | 0 / 53 | 0 / 552 | |
| Union of European Democrats | Liberal conservatism Social liberalism | Centre tocentre-right | Elżbieta Bińczycka | 0 / 460 | 1 / 100 | 0 / 53 | 0 / 552 | |
| Young Poland Association[32] | Liberal conservatism | Centre-right | Jan Strzeżek | 0 / 460 | 0 / 100 | 0 / 51 | 0 / 552 | |
| Independents: | 1 / 460 | 1 / 100 | 0 / 53 | 0 / 552 | ||||
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz w ostatnich latach próbował nadać swojej partii nową twarz. Gdy w 2015 r. po raz pierwszy obejmował funkcję przewodniczącego partii, podkreślał, że „ludowy nie znaczy wiejski, tylko powszechny, i takie będzie Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe". Próbował zdobywać wyborców w miastach, kierując formację w stronę liberalizmu gospodarczego.[Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has tried to give his party a new face in recent years.When he took over as party chairman for the first time in 2015, he stressed that ‘people's does not mean agrarian, it means universal, and that is what the Polish People's Party will be’. He tried to win voters in the cities by steering the formation towards economic liberalism.]
Odwołanie do agraryzmu nie pojawia się we współczesnym programie partii. Obecne porozumienie przedwyborcze PSL i Polski 2050 zwane Trzecią Drogą (co być może stanowi nawiązanie do tradycji ludowcowej) w znikomym stopniu komunikuje swoje poglądy na sprawy wiejskie, choć w programie przedwyborczym koalicji wysunięto postulat ochrony małych i średnich gospodarstw. Można więc wysnuć wniosek, iż PSL współcześnie w zasadzie nie jest kontynuatorem tradycji agrarystycznych i nie są one w nim żywe. PSL zapracowała sobie na wizerunek partii raczej bezideowej.[Reference to agrarianism does not appear in the party's contemporary programme. The current pre-election agreement of the PSL and Poland 2050, called the Third Way (which is perhaps a reference to the People's Party tradition), hardly communicates its views on rural affairs, although the coalition's pre-election programme put forward a postulate for the protection of small and medium-sized farms. Thus, one can conclude that the PSL today is basically not a continuation of agrarian traditions and they are not alive in it. The PSL has earned itself the image of a rather non-ideological party.]
In one of the biggest surprises of the election, the 'Polish Coalition', a centre-right electoral bloc led by the agrarian Polish Peasant Party that also included the right-wing anti-establishment Kukiz'15 grouping, comfortably crossed the representation threshold securing an impressive 8.55 per cent of the vote and 30 seats.
