The Conservative Party (, PK) was a

conservative liberal Conservative liberalism, also referred to as right-liberalism, is a variant of liberalism combining liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or simply representing the right wing of the liberal movement. In the case of modern con ...

political party functioning between 1992 and 1997.

History

The party was created on 6 December 1992 and formally registered on 19 February 1993. It was formed by members of the Forum of the Democratic Right, which functioned within the

Democratic Union (Poland) The Democratic Union () was a liberal Christian-democratic party in Poland. The party was founded in 1991 by Prime Minister, Christian Democrat Tadeusz Mazowiecki as a merger of the Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action (''Ruch Obywatelski A ...

, activists of the Republican Coalition and Upper Silesian-Dąbrowa Basin Conservative-Liberal Group, a faction of the Liberal Democratic Congress. In parliament, its representatives (8 posełs, 6 from UD, 2 from KLD) joined the Polish Convention. In the

1993 Polish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 September 1993. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate of Poland, Senate were elected. The elections were won by the left-wing parties of the Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) ...

, the Conservative Party started as part of the Catholic Electoral Committee "Fatherland", which gained 878,445 (6,37%), and did not cross the 8% electoral threshold. In the Spring of 1993, the party joined the November 11th Agreement. In February 1994, a group of activists left the party, creating the Conservative Coalition. A year later in the

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, the Conservative Party backed the candidacy of

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz Hanna Beata Gronkiewicz-Waltz (, born 4 November 1952) is a Polish politician and lawyer, Professor of Jurisprudence and politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw between 2006 and 2018. She is the first and so far only woman to have hel ...

. In 1996, it signed an agreement to work with the Freedom Union, but soon later joined the

Solidarity Electoral Action Solidarity Electoral Action (, AWS) was a coalition of political parties in Poland, active from 1996 to 2001. AWS was the political arm of the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity trade union, whose leader Lech Wałęsa (also an AWS member ...

. In January 1997, the Conservative Party entered the Conservative People's Party, and dissolved itself.

References

{{reflist, group=lower-alpha Defunct political parties in Poland Political parties established in 1992 Political parties disestablished in 1997 1992 establishments in Poland 1997 disestablishments in Poland Conservative liberal parties