The Popular Councils was a

centre-left Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. Ideologies commonly associated with it include social democracy, social liberalism, progressivism, and green politics. Ideas commo ...

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 34 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 ...

, being the second most popular party.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. After the

Peasant Group of Popular Councils The Peasant Group of Popular Councils was a left-wing political party in the Republic of Central Lithuania. It was formed in 1922, by breaking off from the Popular Councils during the government cadency, and held seven seats in the Sejm of Centra ...

broke away from the party, its number of seats dropped to 27. Its ideology was moderate radicalism, and it supported the incorporation of Central Lithuania into

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 ...

. Its leader was Józef Małowieski.
Sejm Wileński 1922 : przebieg posiedzeń według sprawozdań stenograficznych w opracowaniu kancelarji sejmowej
', Vilanous, 1922.

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