Congress Liberalno-Demokratyczny
The Kongres Liberalno-Demokratieyczny (short: KLD ) was a liberal and Christian party in Poland .
The KLD emerged from the Solidarność movement. Party leader was the future Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk . The party called for a free market economy and individual freedom and advocated European integration , rapid privatization of state-owned companies and a decentralization of the government.
In the parliamentary elections in 1991 , the KLD won 7.5% of the vote and moved to the Sejm with 37 out of 460 seats . In 1993 the KLD only received 4.0% of the votes and thus failed because of the threshold clause . On March 20, 1994, the party merged with the Democratic Union ( Unia Demokratyczna, UD ) to form the Freedom Union ( Unia Wolności, UW ).
In 2001 some party members together with members of the Solidarność election campaign ( Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność, AWS ), led by Donald Tusk, founded the Civic Platform party ( Platforma Obywatelska, PO ).
In 2005 the UW was finally transformed into the Democratic Party ( Partia Demokratyczna, PD ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Ziemer : The political system of Poland. An introduction. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, p. 193.