Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność
The electoral campaign Solidarność (Polish Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność ; AWS ) was an electoral alliance founded in Poland in 1996 . It consisted of around 40 to 50 groups from the Post Solidarność camp, the former regime opposition in the People's Republic of Poland . Their orientation was Christian, conservative and liberal . From 1997 to 2001 the AWS provided the Prime Minister with Jerzy Buzek , the Sejm Marshal with Maciej Płażyński and the Senate Marshal with Alicja Grześkowiak . In 2003 it broke up at the national level.
history
After almost all parties in the post-Solidarność camp failed to enter the Sejm due to the newly introduced threshold clauses in the parliamentary elections in 1993 and their joint presidential candidate Lech Wałęsa was defeated in the 1995 elections to the SLD candidate Aleksander Kwaśniewski , the chairman initiated the Solidarność trade union , Marian Krzaklewski , founded an electoral alliance in 1996, which was supposed to bring together the numerous groups of the former regime opposition. The resulting election campaign Solidarność ultimately united national liberal , national conservative, agrarian, Christian-democratic and nationalist forces. Marian Krzaklewski became chairman.
From the 1997 Sejm elections , the AWS actually emerged as the strongest party with 33.8% and formed a coalition with the Freedom Union (UW) under Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek . Although the coalition, due to a lack of group discipline in the AWS - v. a. the Christian National Association (ZChN) often voted against government proposals - when Buzek broke up during the legislative period and had to rule with a minority government, he was the first prime minister to remain in office until the end of the legislative period.
The domestic political reforms pursued by his government, as well as accession to NATO (1999) and rapprochement with the EU, led to internal party conflicts. In 2001, the AWS began to disintegrate due to programmatic and especially personal differences. Important personalities joined the newly founded Platforma Obywatelska (PO) and “ Law and Justice ” (PiS). Together with the “ Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland ” (ROP), the AWS has now formed the Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność Prawicy electoral alliance (“Solidarność Election of the Right”; AWSP).
However, the 2001 elections turned into a fiasco for the AWSP. With only 5.6%, the electoral alliance did not even make it into the Sejm. Since then, AWSP has only been active on a local level.
Party leader
- 1996-2001: Marian Krzaklewski
- 2001-2003: Jerzy Buzek
Election results in elections to the Sejm
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Ziemer : The political system of Poland. An introduction. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, p. 193.