Senate Pact 2023 Pakt Senacki 2023 | |
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| Organizer | Zygmunt Frankiewicz |
| Founded | 28 February 2023 (2023-02-28) |
| Ideology | Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Big tent |
| Pact members |
Yes! For Poland New Poland |
| Colours | Blue Yellow |
| Senate | 66 / 100 |
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TheSenate Pact 2023 (Polish:Pakt Senacki 2023) is anelectoral alliance among theCivic Coalition (KO), theNew Left (NL), thePolish People's Party (PSL) andPoland 2050 for the2023 Polish Senate election. The accord was agreed on 28 February 2023 by party representativesMarcin Kierwiński (KO),Dariusz Wieczorek (NL),Piotr Zgorzelski (KP-PSL) andJacek Bury (Poland 2050).
The agreement assumed close cooperation regarding the conduct of the election campaign; in each electoral district for theSenate of Poland, the constituent parties backed one common candidate. Candidates recommended by parties to the agreement and political parties cooperating had the exclusive right to use the official logo of the coalition.
To implement the agreement, an organizational team was established, whose work is managed by a representative ofYes! For Poland–Civic Coalition SenatorZygmunt Frankiewicz. The team's task is to divide the electoral districts into individual parties to the agreement, prepare proposals for candidates for Senators of the Republic of Poland and develop a concept for conducting an election campaign. The first informal Senate pact was concluded before theparliamentary elections in 2019.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The Senate Pact 2023 was to also include theGerman Minority Electoral Committee, a political party representing the interests of German minority in Poland, located in Upper Silesia. However, the party refused to join the pact, stating that the program of the parties forming the Senate Pact 2023 was not satisfactory. In response, theNew Left accused the German party of increasing the likelihood ofLaw and Justice victory. Despite refusing to join the pact, locally the German Minority Electoral Committee dropped out and endorsed Senate Pact 2023 candidates as long as they pledged to "actively expand regional self-government, develop the integration of the European community and work towards restoring German as a national minority language".[7]
The alliance won 66 seats out of 100 in the11th term of the Senate which will sit from 2023 to 2027.
| Name | Ideology | Political position | Leader(s) | Number of candidates (2023) | 2019 result | Number of seats at the end of the 10th term | 2023 result | Current number of seats | ||||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | Votes (%) | Seats | |||||||||
| Civic Coalition (KO) Koalicja Obywatelska Members | Conservative liberalism | Big tent | Donald Tusk | 49 / 100 | 35.7% | 43 / 100 | 40 / 100 | 28.9% | 41 / 100 | 43 / 100 | ||
| The Left Lewica Members
| Social democracy Progressivism | Centre-left[8] toleft-wing[9] | Włodzimierz Czarzasty Robert Biedroń | 14 / 100 | 2.3% | 2 / 100 | 1 / 100 | 5.3% | 9 / 100 | 8 / 100 | ||
| Third Way (TD) Trzecia Droga | Polish Coalition (KP) Koalicja Polska Members
| Christian democracy Conservatism | Centre-right | Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz | 21 / 100 | 5.7% | 3 / 100 | 4 / 100 | 8.1% | 6 / 100 | 12 / 100 | |
| Poland 2050 Polska 2050 | Christian democracy Green politics | Centre tocentre-right | Szymon Hołownia | 8 / 100 | — | 1 / 100 | 3.4% | 5 / 100 | ||||
| Yes! For Poland Tak! Dla Polski | Regionalism Decentralization | Centre-left | Rafał Trzaskowski | 8 / 100 | — | 2 / 100 [a] | 3.3% | 6 / 100 | — | |||
| New Poland Nowa Polska | Conservative liberalism | Centre | Zygmunt Frankiewicz | — | — | — | — | 3 / 100 | ||||
| Independents | — | 1 / 100 | — | 2 / 100 | 0.7% | 1 / 100 | 0 / 100 | |||||
| Total | N/A | 97 / 100 | 45.9% | 51 / 100 | 49 / 100 | 48.4% | 66 / 100 | 66 / 100 | ||||
Jan Maria Jackowski andJózef Zając, former members of theLaw and Justice parliamentary group have been informally endorsed and the Pact did not stand in their constituencies.