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2019 Polish Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 13 October 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate of Poland, Senate were elected. The ruling right-wing Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice (PiS) won re-election to a second term retaining its majority in the Sejm. However, it lost its majority in the Senate to the opposition. With 43.6% of the popular vote, Law and Justice received the highest vote share by any party since Poland returned to democracy in 1989. The turnout was the highest for a parliamentary election since the first 1989 Polish parliamentary election, free elections after the Revolutions of 1989, fall of communism in 1989. For the first time after 1989, the ruling party controlled one house, while the opposition controlled the other. Background Following the 2015 Polish parliamentary election, 2015 parliamentary elections the Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice (PiS) party was able to form a majority government, after receiving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sejm Members (2015–2019)
The eighth term of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ran from 12 November 2015 until 2019. Officers Members of Sejm See also * 2015 Polish parliamentary election * List of Polish senators (2015–2019) * List of Sejm members (2011–15) A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ..., former term References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Sejm Members (2015-2019) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Coalition
The Polish Coalition (, KP) is a political alliance in Poland. It is led by the Polish People's Party. It was formed in 2019. In the 2019 parliamentary election, the Polish Coalition placed fourth, winning 30 seats in total. Its 2020 presidential candidate was Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, who placed fifth in the first round. The coalition adheres to principles of Christian democracy, and conservatism. The coalition also adhered to agrarianism, but the Polish People's Party has since then shifted away from this ideology. It has been described as centrist and centre-right. History Formation and parliamentary election The coalition was first mentioned on 4 February 2019, at a press conference as a union of the Polish People's Party (PSL), the Union of European Democrats (UED) and Modern (N). The idea was supported by former mayor of Wrocław, Rafał Dutkiewicz. In the May 2019 European Parliament election, the PSL, Modern and UED participated in the European Coalition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Polish Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 13 October 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate of Poland, Senate were elected. The ruling right-wing Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice (PiS) won re-election to a second term retaining its majority in the Sejm. However, it lost its majority in the Senate to the opposition. With 43.6% of the popular vote, Law and Justice received the highest vote share by any party since Poland returned to democracy in 1989. The turnout was the highest for a parliamentary election since the first 1989 Polish parliamentary election, free elections after the Revolutions of 1989, fall of communism in 1989. For the first time after 1989, the ruling party controlled one house, while the opposition controlled the other. Background Following the 2015 Polish parliamentary election, 2015 parliamentary elections the Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice (PiS) party was able to form a majority government, after receiving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senate Of Poland
The Senate () is the upper house of the Parliament of Poland, Polish parliament, the lower house being the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Sejm. The history of the Polish Senate stretches back over 500 years; it was one of the first constituent bodies of a bicameral parliament in Europe and existed without hiatus until the final Partitions of Poland, partition of the Polish state in 1795. The contemporary Senate is composed of 100 senators elected by a universal ballot and is headed by the Marshal of the Senate (''Marszałek Senatu''). The incumbent Marshal of the Senate is Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska. Following a brief period of existence under the Second Polish Republic, the Senate was again abolished by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic. It was not re-established until the collapse of the communist government and reinstatement of democracy in Poland in 1989. The Senate is based in Warsaw and is located in a building which forms part of the Sejm Complex on Wiejs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Minority Electoral Committee
The German Minority Electoral Committee (, ) is an electoral committee in Poland which represents the German minority. From 2005 to 2023 the party had been represented in the Sejm by Ryszard Galla who has been leader of the party since 2008. It is not a registered political party, but an organization by which Poland's political system gives political representation to national minorities. Candidates of the German minority are proposed by the Social-Cultural Association of Germans in Opolitian Silesia (, ) and the Social-Cultural Association of Germans in Silesian Voivodeship (). Background There is a significant German minority in Upper Silesia, which trace their history back to when the area was a part of Germany or its predecessor states from the late Middle Ages until the 1940s, and there are 19 counties of Opole Voivodeship where Germans make up more than 20% of the population. Germans are the largest minority group in Poland — according to the 2002 census, there were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryszard Galla
Ryszard Jerzy Galla (born 22 July 1956 in Wrocław) is a Polish politician of German descent. Originally a member of the Opole Regional Assembly and briefly the Marshal of Opole Voivodeship in 2002, Galla was elected to the Sejm during the 2005 parliamentary election, getting 9072 votes in the 21st Opole district, and was the sole Sejm member from the German Minority Electoral Committee (, ) until he lost his seat in the 2023 parliamentary election. Biography Post Sejm After leaving the Sejm Galla stood for and won a mandate for the Opole Voivodeship Sejmik in 2024. Galla was appointed the Government Plenipotentiary for National and Ethnic Minorities by Szymon Hołownia on May 15, 2024. Galla was confirmed in a 12-2 vote, with his new responsibilities being to represent all minorities in the Sejm. Personal life Galla is the vice-president of the board of the provincial Social and Cultural Society of Germans in Opole Silesia, as well as the president of the Polish-German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederation (political Party)
A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defence, foreign relations, internal trade or currency, with the central government being required to provide support for all its members. Confederalism represents a main form of intergovernmentalism, defined as any form of interaction around states that takes place on the basis of sovereign independence or government. The nature of the relationship among the member states constituting a confederation varies considerably. Likewise, the relationship between the member states and the general government and their distribution of powers varies. Some looser confederations are similar to international organisations. Other confederations with stricter rules may resemble federal systems. These elements of such confederations, the inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederation Of The Polish Crown
The Confederation of the Polish Crown (, KKP), often shortened to The Crown (), is a far-right political party in Poland. The party was founded by Grzegorz Braun as a personal political vehicle. As such, the party and its views largely stem from Braun's own personal positions. It has been described as ultranationalist and traditionalist, and the party advocates for Jesus Christ to be "enthroned" as the "King" of Poland. The party's goals are to "fight for the good of Poland, secure the sovereignty of the Polish State, defend Poland's Catholic faith, ensure that Polish families are prosperous, and help shape social life based on the principles of Latin civilization". History Formation (2019–2022) The origin of Korona can be traced to an organization Braun founded in 2015 called Pobudka ( 'wake up call'). A network of Braun's supporters across 41 constituencies, Braun would formally transform his base into KKP in time for the 2019 Sejm election where he would win Constitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Movement (Poland)
The National Movement ( , RN) is a Far-right politics, far-right List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. It is led by Krzysztof Bosak. It claims spiritual descendance from the prewar movement of Roman Dmowski, the National Democracy (Poland), National Democracy, which was also commonly called the National Movement. It was founded in 2012 as an organization, and in 2014 it was registered as a political party. It is a part of the Confederation Liberty and Independence, and it currently has seven members in the Sejm. It is a Far-right politics, far-right political party and it is orientated towards Social conservatism, socially conservative and Militarism, militarist stances. National congress meetings The First Congress of the National Movement took place on 8 June 2013 in Warsaw. Guest of honor at the congress was Rafał Ziemkiewicz. Representatives of the groups co-create the movement and signed the declaration of ideological National Movement. The Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KORWiN
The New Hope ( , NN) is a right-wing to far-right political party in Poland and member of Confederation. As of 2024, it is led by Sławomir Mentzen. Founded in 2015 by Janusz Korwin-Mikke as a result of his removal from the Congress of the New Right, his former party, it was initially called Coalition for the Renewal of the Republic of Liberty and Hope () and then subsequently Confederation for the Renewal of the Republic of Liberty and Hope (), both backronym to KORWiN or sometimes shortened to Liberty (). Among the party's other members are Przemysław Wipler, who held a seat in the Polish Sejm, and Robert Iwaszkiewicz, Member of the European Parliament. The party's Polish name was originally a backronym of the founder's name Korwin-Mikke, who took part in the 2015 presidential election. History The party was formed shortly after Janusz Korwin-Mikke was removed from the chairmanship of the Congress of the New Right (KNP). The pro-Korwin faction of the KNP ended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grzegorz Braun
Grzegorz Michał Braun (born 11 March 1967) is a Polish politician. He served as a member of the Sejm, the lower house of Poland's parliament, for Rzeszów from 2019 to 2024. He has been Chairman of the Confederation of the Polish Crown (abbreviated in Polish as KKP) since 2019 and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie (European Parliament constituency), Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie since 2024. Braun's political career began when he announced his candidacy in the 2015 Polish presidential election, 2015 presidential election. He formed the campaign committee "God Bless You!", but received a minimal percentage of the vote. His political journey continued with his participation in discussions on European and Russian relations and his candidacies in various elections including for the mayoral office of Gdańsk and the European Parliament. Despite electoral setbacks, he was elected to the Sejm at the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Winnicki
Robert Artur Winnicki (born 18 July 1985) is a Polish former politician who served as a member of the Sejm between 2015–2023. He was the head of the National Movement political party between 2015–2023. Before entering politics, Winnicki worked as a journalist. He served as a chairman of the far-right All-Polish Youth from 2009 to 2013. In 2012, he founded the National Movement and in 2015, he was first elected in the 2015 Polish parliamentary election running as the main candidate on the list of Kukiz'15 in the 1-Legnica constituency. He was re-elected to the Sejm in 2019, this time running as the main candidate on the list of Confederation Liberty and Independence in the 24-Białystok constituency. Biography Winnicki attended but did not graduate from the University of Wrocław where he studied political science. After his studies he worked in real estate and managed a hotel. He also worked as a journalist. His first political campaign was in 2007 when he unsuccessfully ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
