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Real Politics Union Unia Polityki Realnej | |
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| President | Bartosz Józwiak |
| Founder | Janusz Korwin-Mikke |
| Founded | 14 November 1987 (as a society) 6 December 1990 (as a party) |
| Headquarters | ul. Złota 7/18, 00–019Warsaw |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing[1] |
| National affiliation | Civic Platform (2001) National Movement (2012–2015) Kukiz'15 (2015–2019) |
| Colours | Black, Azure, White |
| Sejm | 0 / 460 |
| Senate | 0 / 100 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 51 |
| Regional assemblies | 0 / 552 |
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TheReal Politics Union (Polish:Unia Polityki Realnej,UPR) is anational conservative andeconomically liberal political party in Poland. In the past it wasright-libertarian andclassical liberal.
UPR was founded in 1987 as theclassic liberal Real Politics Movement byJanusz Korwin-Mikke, who later became its long-term leader.
In the 1990s and 2000s, UPR consistently had the support of 1–2% of voters in general elections, too low to receive public funding under Polish electoral law. As a consequence, it has faced prolonged financial difficulties since its inception. In the 1991 legislative election, the party won 3 seats.
In theparliamentary election in 2001, the UPR candidates started from lists ofCivic Platform to Sejm. To the Senate both parties joined centre-right coalitionSenate 2001 with other post-Solidarity parties.
UPRs candidates commenced their political campaign from its short-lived satellite partyJanusz Korwin-Mikke's Platform ("Platforma Janusza Korwin-Mikke"). The PJKM also did not manage to cross the required 5% threshold in the 2005 parliamentary elections (it got only 1.57%).
In theparliamentary election in 2007, the UPR candidates campaigned in cooperation with theLeague of Polish Families but did not enter into a formal coalition. The list on which both the UPR and the League appeared saw the UPR get 1.5% votes. This was insufficient to get any of their candidates into the lower house ("Sejm") and therefore the UPR remains unable to obtain public funding.
In October 2009,Janusz Korwin-Mikke left the party and its another former chairman,Stanisław Michalkiewicz, resigned from his honorary membership. In the following years, party became morenationalist.
In the 2011 elections,Stanisław Żółtek (along withpro Korwin-Mikke faction) took part in the foundation ofCongress of the New Right, which was led by the former chairman of the UPRJanusz Korwin-Mikke.
In the 2012, UPR (along with theAll-Polish Youth andNational Radical Camp) formedfar-right political allianceNational Movement, which merged into the political party in the 2014.
UPR cooperated withNational Movement in theEuropean Parliament election in 2014,Polish local elections in 2014 and thepresidential election in 2015. In thePolish parliamentary election in 2015, the wholeNational Movement stand for the Sejm from the lists ofKukiz'15.
At the end of 2015, UPR leader Bartosz Józwiak leftNational Movement which ended the partnership between these parties.
In the 2019 election, UPR leftKukiz'15, because it did not want to join thecoalition withPolish People's Party. It created its own parliamentary group which consisted of four members that existed till the end of the 8thSejm. Some of UPR associated members were candidates ofLaw and Justice party in2019 election.
On 21 February 2020, UPR joinedEuropean Christian Political Party.[4] In March, UPR declared willingness to cooperate withAgreement party. In the second round of2020 presidential election, UPR supportedAndrzej Duda,;the party did not support any of the candidates before the first round.
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