The Democratic Party was a left-wing political party in the

Republic of Central Lithuania The Republic of Central Lithuania (, ), commonly known as the Central Lithuania, and the Middle Lithuania (, , ), was an unrecognized short-lived puppet state of Poland, that existed from 1920 to 1922. It was founded on 12 October 1920, after ...

. Following the 1922 general elections, it held 4 seats in the

Sejm of Central Lithuania Sejm of Central Lithuania (), also known as the Vilnius Sejm, or Wilno Sejm (; Lithuanian language, Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus seimas'') or the Adjudicating Sejm (), was the parliament of the short-lived state of Republic of Central Lithuania, Central ...

.Wincenty Witos; Eugeniusz Karczewski:
Dzieła wybrane: Moja tułaczka w Czechosłowacji / do druku ...
' (1995). (in Polish). 3. Warsaw: Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wyd. p. 542. ISBN 83-205-3497-6. It supported independence of the Sejm from outside influence, and demanded that it should held control over the state administration until the possible future unification with

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. It believed that the idea of the federation with Poland, proposed by

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (Poland), Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920). In the aftermath of World War I, he beca ...

, was impossible to organize at that time, and would have to be postponed for the future. Its leader was Witold Abramowicz.
Sejm Wileński 1922 : przebieg posiedzeń według sprawozdań stenograficznych w opracowaniu kancelarji sejmowej
', Vilanous, 1922.

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