Congress of the New Right

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Congress of the New Right
Kongres Nowej Prawicy
LeaderStanisław Żółtek
FounderJanusz Korwin-Mikke
Founded25 March 2011
Merger ofLiberty and Lawfulness
splittings from Real Politics Union
Headquartersul. Szklanych Domów 3/U1,
04-346
Senate
0 / 100
European Parliament
0 / 51
Regional assemblies
0 / 555
Party flag
Website
knp.org.pl

The Congress of the New Right (Polish: Kongres Nowej Prawicy, Nowa Prawica or just KNP) is a Eurosceptic political party in Poland.[4] The party was founded on 25 March 2011 by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, from the merger of the Liberty and Lawfulness (WiP) with several members of the Real Politics Union (UPR). The former leader Korwin-Mikke was ousted from the party in 2015, upon revelations that he had fathered 2 children out of wedlock.[5] The party assumed the official name Congress of the New Right on 12 May 2011.

History

The political organisation KNP was founded by supporters of Liberty and Lawfulness leader,

Mazovia (2.32%). In terms of overall country-wide votes, the party concluded the election at seventh place.[7] The committee had candidates for the position of mayor in some main cities in Poland in the same 2010 elections. Janusz Korwin-Mikke
ended fourth in the mayoral election in Warsaw, gaining 3.90% of the eligible votes. Afterwards, the new party, the Congress of the New Right was founded on 25 March 2011, a day after the "Real Politics Union – Liberty and Lawfulness" had ceased to exist.

Activity

The first meeting of the new party was held on 16 April 2011 in the Palace of Culture and Science. Over 2,000 sympathizers attended the meeting, including notable people like Krzysztof Rybiński, Andrzej Sośnierz, Krzysztof Bosak, Romuald Szeremietiew, Stanisław Michalkiewicz or Tomasz Sommer. One month later, "Congress of the New Right" was formally acknowledged on 12 April 2011 as a new name of the party.

The Congress registered an electoral committee under the name "Nowa Prawica - Janusz Korwin Mikke" for the upcoming

the Polish Senate
the party was allowed to put forward candidates on 10 out of 100 electoral districts (the number of electoral districts differ for the Polish Parliament and the Polish Senate). The elections were disastrous for the party as it received merely 1.06% votes (151 837), a result that placed it at seventh place. Therefore, none of the party's candidates were voted into the Senate.

On 9 January 2013 The KNP Youth Section was officially founded. Access is granted to both young adults as well as those who have not reached the age of majority (18).

In the 2015 party's leader

Liberty, whose leader became Janusz Korwin-Mikke
.

In the parliamentary election in 2015 KNP stood for the Sejm from the lists of Kukiz'15, gaining 1 MP.

Aims

KNP is against interfering with the current election system. It calls for enacting a new libertarian-minded constitution, reduction of the size of the

Polish Parliament and forming a State Council, which would replace the Parliament as the legislative branch. KNP is also in favor of more regional autonomy.[8]

The party's main priorities are lowering taxes (including the abolition of income tax) and reducing the national debt by cutting down social programs and allowing the economy to flourish.[9]

KNP is for the total decriminalisation of using and producing drugs.[10]

KNP is for establishing a presidential system instead of the current parliamentary system.

KNP opposes same-sex marriage.[10]

The party is for the restoration of capital punishment.[10]

The party supports Polish

Polish zloty and to make it a gold-based currency
.

KNP is

anti-abortion
only allowing in case of risk for the mother's life.

Election results

Sejm

Election year # of
votes 		% of
vote 		# of
overall seats won 		+/–
2011 151,837 1.1
0 / 460
2015 4,852 0.03
1 / 460
[11]

Senate

Election year # of
overall seats won 		+/–
2011
0 / 100
2015
0 / 100
 Steady

Presidential

Election year Candidate 1st round 2nd round
# of overall votes % of overall vote # of overall votes % of overall vote
2015 Jacek Wilk 68,186 0.5 (#10)
2020 Stanisław Żółtek 45,419 0.23 (#7)

Regional assemblies

Election year % of
vote 		# of
overall seats won 		+/–
2014 3.89
0 / 555

European Parliament

Election year # of
votes 		% of
vote 		# of
overall seats won 		+/–
2014 505,586 7.15
4 / 51
2019 7,900 0,06
0 / 51
 Decrease4

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Leader of Poland's Euro-sceptic party believes: "Women should not have right to vote."". 7 April 2014. Archived from the original on 5 February 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. ^ Stefanel, Adriana (2016). Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis. Springer. p. 21.
  3. ^ "EU Elections: Meet the New Right-Wing Powers in Brussels". International Business Times UK. 27 May 2014.
  4. ^ Aleks Szczerbiak (23 May 2014). "EU election: Polish campaign dominated by Ukraine crisis". Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Korwin-Mikke ousted as leader of New Right". Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy.
  6. ^ "Wybory 2010". prezydent2010.pkw.gov.pl. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  7. ^ Kom Sejmik wybory2010.pkw.gov.pl (in Polish)
  8. ^ "Kongres Nowej Prawicy". Portal Wyborczy w Polsce. 2011. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012.
  9. ^ "Program partii Korwin-Mikkego: niższe podatki i legalna marihuana - Polska - Newsweek.pl". 9 November 2017. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Program Wyborczy KNP". On its own website. 2011-07-08. Archived from the original on 2014-05-30.
  11. ^ From the Kukiz'15 list.

Further reading

External links

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