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Patriotic Self-Defence
Patriotic Self-Defence (, SP) was a minor political party in Poland. The party was founded in September 2006 by former members of the Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (, SRP), who left the party following an argument with the leader of Self-Defence Andrzej Lepper. The party ran in the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, where it tried to take votes from their former party by using a similar name, logo and political program. Ultimately, the party's electoral lists were only accepted in one electoral district. The party won 0.02% of the nationwide vote. It disbanded in 2013. The party consisted of about 20 Self-Defence members, who left the party after it consolidated itself into a far-left politics, far-left party. The name of the party referred to the fact that the SRP completely abandoned nationalism by 2007. The ideology of Patriotic Self-Defence became a mixture of nationalist, Catholic and social policies and tried to play into the main political values of Self-Defence su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samoobrona Patriotyczna, Logo
The Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (, SRP) is a Christian socialism, Christian socialist, Populism, populist, agrarianism, agrarian, and Nationalism, nationalist list of political parties in Poland, political party and trade union in Poland. The party promotes agrarian socialist and Christian socialism#In Catholicism, Catholic socialist economic policies combined with a left-wing populist, Anti-globalization movement, anti-globalization and anti-neoliberalism, anti-neoliberal rhetoric. The party describes itself as left-wing, although it stresses that it belongs to the "patriotic left" and follows Catholic social teaching. The party is sympathetic to Polish People's Republic, Communist Poland, which led political scientists to label the party as neocommunist, post-communist, and far-left. Though considered a "political chameleon", Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland is generally regarded as a left-wing party by historians and political scientists. According to :pl:Andrz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Polish Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 21 October 2007. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The largest opposition group, Civic Platform (PO), soundly defeated the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and its allies. Throughout the campaign, polls showed conflicting results as to which of the two parties had the greater support, yet by the closing week the polls had swung in favour of Civic Platform. Three other political groups won the election into the Sejm, the centre-left Left and Democrats coalition, the agrarian Polish People's Party, and the tiny German Minority group. Law and Justice's former minor coalition partners, the League of Polish Families and the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland suffered an enormous voter backlash, failing to cross the 5% electoral threshold in order to enter the Sejm. Consequently, both parties lost all of their seats. Early elections were called after the Sejm voted for its dissolution, due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leszek Miller
Leszek Cezary Miller (Polish pronunciation: ; born 3 July 1946) is a Polish politician who served as prime minister of Poland from 2001 to 2004. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2019–2024. From 1989 to 1990, Miller was a member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party. He was the leader of the Democratic Left Alliance (Poland), Democratic Left Alliance from 1999 to 2004 and again from 2011 to 2016. Childhood and youth Leszek Miller is the great-grandson of Eliasz, son of Mośek and Sura Miller, born in 1840 in Kutno. Eliasz Miller converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1869 in Nieborów. Leszek Miller was born in Żyrardów, Miller comes from a poor, working-class family: His father was a tailor and his mother a needlewoman. His parents broke up when Miller was six months old. His father, Florian Miller left the family and Leszek has never maintained any contact with him. His mother brought him up in a religious spirit – followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nie (magazine)
''Nie'' (stylised as ''NIE''; Polish for "No"; pronounced ) is a Polish weekly magazine published in Warsaw. History and profile The magazine was first published in October 1990. It was founded by Jerzy Urban who was the first and only editor-in-chief of the magazine until his death in 2022. Its political line is left. The magazine is very critical of right wing political views and religion, especially Catholicism. In the 1990s it supported the leader of the Democratic Left Alliance, Aleksander Kwaśniewski. It publishes lot of satirical texts with cartoons and pictures. ''Nie'' had a circulation of 600,000 copies in 1991. In 1995 its circulation was over 700,000 copies. In 1990 when Solidarity and the church were planning to push a strict new anti-abortion law through parliament, the magazine published a quarter-page, full-color photograph of a nude couple about to make love to warn its readers that "they risked going to jail or being forced into unwanted marriages if they did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Urban
Jerzy Urban (born Jerzy Urbach, 3 August 1933 – 3 October 2022) was a Polish journalist, commentator, writer and politician, best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine ''Nie''. From 1981 to 1989 he was the Press Secretary of the Polish government under the People's Republic of Poland, and the Head of the Polish Radio and Television Committee in 1989. An anticlerical and socialist throughout his life, he frequently was the centre of numerous controversies due to his comments and political views resulting in support of Polish government; on the other hand, he was an intelligent and uncompromising satirist, writer and journalist, which results in a complex legacy of his life. Biography Before 1989 Urban was born into an assimilated Jewish family in Łódź. His father, Jan Urbach, was an activist of Polish Socialist Party and the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland. In 1939, they relocated to the city of Lwów (Lemberg, now Lviv). Following the outb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Polish Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 5 November 1995, with a second round on 19 November.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1491 The leader of Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland, Social Democracy, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, and incumbent President Lech Wałęsa advanced to the second round. Kwaśniewski won the election with 52% of the vote in the Two-round system, run-off against 48% for Wałęsa. Background Wałęsa's inauguration Lech Wałęsa was 1990 Polish presidential election, elected and sworn in as President of Poland, President in December 1990, succeeding Wojciech Jaruzelski and leading to the ultimate end of Polish People's Republic, communist rule in Poland. Soon after his inauguration, Wałęsa's presently primary rival Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki resigned and was followed by Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, a Liberalism in Poland, liberal and economist relatively loyal to Wałęsa. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lech Jęczmyk
Lech Jęczmyk (10 January 1936 – 17 July 2023) was a Polish publicist, essayist, writer and translator. He was a critic of science-fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, sp ..., chief editor of '' Nowa Fantastyka'' from 1990 to 1992, and editor of several science-fiction series and anthologies. His essays were collected in: * ''Eseje'' (2005) * ''Trzy końce historii czyli Nowe Średniowiecze'' (2006) Jęczmyk died on 17 July 2023, at the age of 87. References Sources *Lech Jęczmykin Encyklopedia Solidarności 1936 births 2023 deaths Polish literary critics Polish essayists Polish male writers Polish male essayists Polish translators International Writing Program alumni Recipients of the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis Recip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular National Union
Związek Ludowo-Narodowy (ZLN; ) was a Polish political party aligned with the National Democracy political movement during the Second Polish Republic, gathering together right-wing politicians with conservative and nationalist opinions. Between 1919 and 1926, the Popular National Union achieved considerable electoral success but at no point governed alone. It could only supply individual ministers (e.g. in finance, education or foreign affairs) to successive governments after 1923 in cooperation with the National Democrats and the peasants' party (Chjeno-Piast). In the 1922 presidential elections, the Popular National Union nominated Count Maurycy Zamoyski to counter the centrist Gabriel Narutowicz and the socialist Stanisław Wojciechowski of the Polish People's Party “Piast”. After the May 1926 Coup, the Popular National Union gradually lost its influence and power in the wake of internal schisms and conflicts under the rule of its rivals, the Sanation regime. In 1928 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kobylański
Jan Kobylański (21 July 1923, Równe, Poland – 27 March 2019, Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Polish-Paraguayan businessman. He was the founder of the Union of Polish Associations and Organizations in Latin America ( pol. ''Unia Stowarzyszeń i Organizacji Polskich w Ameryce Łacińskiej, USOPAŁ'') the largest Polish immigrant organization of South America. He was also a founder of one of the world's largest companies involved in editing postage stamps, and coins mintage. He has written books on philately, as well as on the mediation policy of the Roman Curia. He was formerly the honorary consul of Poland to Paraguay, and the honorary consul of Paraguay to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. Biography Kobylański was the son of Polish attorney at law Stanisław Kobylański. In 1943 he was arrested by the Nazis, and imprisoned at Warsaw's infamous Pawiak prison. He was a prisoner in the German concentration camps Mauthausen and Gross Rosen. After World War II, he moved to Italy, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
