Confederation Liberty and Independence
Confederation Liberty and Independence Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość | ||
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Sejm 18 / 460 | ||
Senate | 0 / 100 | |
European Parliament | 0 / 51 | |
Regional assemblies | 6 / 552 | |
Website | ||
konfederacja | ||
The Confederation Liberty and Independence (
A coalition mainly led by
History
Two political parties,
The coalition was registered on 25 July 2019 under the name Confederation Liberty and Independence.[18] Godek left the coalition soon after.[19] Shortly before the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, a schism occurred in the coalition, with many representatives joining the coalition while some of them also left.[20][21] The coalition ended up winning 6.81% of the popular vote and won 11 seats in the Sejm.[22][23] Most of the support the party received was in southeast and northern parts of Poland.[24] Around 20% of all young voters aged under-30 supported the grouping, about two-thirds of its voters were male, and more than three-fifths lived in smaller towns and rural areas. This has been highlighted as a significant change from previous right-wing alliances involving Korwin-Mikke where the base of support was almost exclusively young males.[25] In November 2019, they presented nine candidates that took part in the 2019–20 Confederation presidential primary.[26] The winner of the presidential primary was Krzysztof Bosak, who became the coalition candidate for the 2020 Polish presidential election.[27] During the first round of the election, Bosak received 1,317,380 votes or 6.78%, coming fourth among eleven candidates.[28]
In 2022, serious internal splits emerged as a result of
Ideology and position
The Confederation is a
Its ideology includes support for numerous
Unlike the Law and Justice, its economic position is orientated towards
The party has supported weapons, financial aid and diplomatic support for Ukraine following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, but argued that these should be conditioned on contracts for postwar rebuilding being guaranteed to Polish companies.[58]
Platform
Confederation's platform includes the following promises, as well as others:
- Taxation[59]
- Eliminate the income tax
- Make social insurance contributions optional
- Reduce gasoline taxes
- Reduce government spending
- Judicial[60]
- Hire more judges' assistants
- Restore capital punishment[61]
- Education[62]
- Create a school voucher program
- Allow parents to opt-out their children from sex-education classes
- Create a cultural voucher that can be used on arts or museums
- National Security[63]
- Allow licensed civilians to own firearms
- Allow the use of nuclear energy
- Oppose the European Union's refugee resettlement program
- Oppose increases in immigration
- Polish culture
- Health[64]
- Ban importation of garbage
- Oppose the European Union's climate change rules
- Protect human life from the moment of conception
- Business[65]
- Abolish penalties for street trade and raise the limits on unlicensed trade.
- Raise the zl400,000
- Index the tax exempt amount to be approximately twelve times the minimum wage
- Allow businesses to refuse services on moral grounds
Composition
Current political parties
Name | Ideology | Position | Leader | MPs | Senators | MEPs | Sejmiks | Entry | |
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National Movement | Ultranationalism National conservatism Social conservatism Militarism |
Far-right
|
Krzysztof Bosak | 6 / 460
|
0 / 100
|
0 / 51
|
0 / 552
|
6 December 2018 | |
New Hope | Paleolibertarianism Libertarian conservatism |
Right-wing to far-right
|
Sławomir Mentzen | 8 / 460
|
0 / 100
|
0 / 51
|
0 / 552
|
6 December 2018 | |
Confederation of the Polish Crown | Monarchism Traditionalism |
Far-right
|
Grzegorz Braun | 4 / 460
|
0 / 100
|
0 / 51
|
0 / 552
|
7 January 2019 | |
Union of Christian Families | Hard Euroscepticism
|
Far-right
|
Bogusław Rogalski | 0 / 460
|
0 / 100
|
0 / 51
|
0 / 552
|
13 August 2019 | |
National League | National democracy Polish nationalism |
Far-right
|
Zbigniew Lipiński | 0 / 460
|
0 / 100
|
0 / 51
|
0 / 552
|
5 September 2019 |
Current organisations and movements
Name | Ideology | Position | Leader | Type | Entry | |
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Agrarian-Consumer Confederation | free-market economy
|
Krzysztof Tołwiński | Informal organisation | 29 November 2019 | ||
All-Polish Youth | anti-LGBT
|
Far-right
|
Marcin Kowalski | Political youth movement | 6 December 2018 | |
Conservative-Monarchist Club | anti-democracy
|
Far-right
|
Adam Wielomski | Philosophical and journalistic organisation | 7 January 2019 | |
Polish Peasant Bloc | Agrarianism, conservatism | Wojciech Mojzesowicz | Informal organisation | 6 December 2018 |
Former political parties
Name | Ideology | Position | Leader | Entry | Exit | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Federation for the Republic of Poland (pl) |
Social conservatism, Political Catholicism, Economic liberalism | Far-right
|
Marek Jakubiak | 6 March 2019[66] | 28 June 2019[67] | |
Effective | Hard Euroscepticism[68]
|
Piotr "Liroy" Marzec | 1 September 2018 | 28 June 2019[67] | ||
Wolnościowcy | Libertarianism | Right-wing
|
Artur Dziambor | 17 March 2022 | 13 February 2023[69] | |
Party of Drivers | Right-wing populism Anti-bureaucratism Anti-environmentalism |
Right-wing
|
Lech Kędzierski | 10 April 2019 | 19 December 2022[70] |
Political parties who had members with individual agreements
Name | Ideology | Position | Leader* | Election | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free and Solidary[71] | Solidarism Anti-communism |
Right-wing to far-right | Kornel Morawiecki | 2019 Polish parliamentary election | 4 party members were candidates for Piotr Liroy-Marzec's Efficient political party electoral committee in Constituency № 35 ( Law and Justice 's electoral lists.
| |
Congress of the New Right[71] | Hard Euroscepticism
|
Right-wing | Stanisław Żółtek | 2019 Polish parliamentary election | Used Federation for the Republic of Poland's electoral lists, which in turn were in agreement with the Right Wing of the Republic, and fielded candidates in the Kraków constituencies. | |
League of Polish Families[71] | Political Catholicism
|
Right-wing to far-right | Witold Bałażak | 2019 Polish parliamentary election | Despite being loosely affiliated with the Polish Coalition, they fielded only 1 candidate in Kraków from their electoral lists, whereas 2 other candidates used Confederation's electoral lists. | |
National Unity (pl) |
Political Catholicism
Paleoconservatism |
Far-right | Gabriel Janowski | 2019 Polish parliamentary election | Vice-chair of the party Paweł Połanecki was a candidate for Piotr Liroy-Marzec's Efficient political party electoral committee in the Piotr Liroy-Marzec himself.
| |
*At the time in question |
Former organisations and movements
Name | Ideology | Position | Leader | Type | Entry | Exit | |
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Life and Family Foundation | Anti-LGBT
|
Far-right
|
Kaja Godek | Lobbyist foundation, social activist group | 28 January 2019[74] | 9 August 2019[75] |
Results
European Parliament
Election Year | Votes | % | Rank | Seats |
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2019 | 621,188 | 4.6 | 4th | 0 / 52
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Sejm
Election year | Votes | % | Rank | Seats |
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2019 | 1,256,953 | 6.8 | 5th | 11 / 460
|
2023 | 1,547,364 | 7.16 | 5th | 18 / 460
|
Senate
Election year | Votes | % | Rank | Seats |
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2019 | 144,124 | 0.8 | 6th | 0 / 100
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2023 | 1,443,836 | 6.75 | 6th | 0 / 100
|
Presidential
Election year | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | ||
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No. of overall votes | % of overall vote | No. of overall votes | % of overall vote | ||
2020 | Krzysztof Bosak | 1,317,380 | 6.8 (4th) |
Regional assemblies
Election year | % of vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– |
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2024 | 7.23% (#4) | 6 / 552
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Internal
Year | Election type | Affiliation | Final Candidate | Number of initial candidates | Number of rounds | Final round | ||
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Electoral vote | Percentage | |||||||
2019–20 | presidential primary
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RN | Bosak | 9 | 1x 16 regional preliminaries 7x convention elimination |
163 | 51.9% | |
KKP | Braun | 146 | 46.5% |
See also
References
- ^ Network, European Data Journalism. "Why young Poles voted for "national-liberals"". European Data Journalism Network. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ S2CID 233843945, retrieved 13 January 2022
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