Liga Polskich Rodzin

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League of Polish Families
Liga Polskich Rodzin
Logo of the LPR
abbreviation LPR
Party leader Witold Bałażak
founding April 21, 2001
Headquarters ul. Hoża 9
00-528 Warsaw
Alignment Right-wing extremism
nationalism
political Catholicism
EU skepticism
Colours) White red azure blue


Sejm
0/460
senate
0/100
Eu Parliament
0/52
Sejmiks
0/555
Website www.lpr.pl

The Liga Polskich Rodzin ( German : League of Polish Families , short: LPR) is a nationalist , Catholic and clerical political party in Poland . She was represented in the Polish Parliament ( Sejm ) from 2001 to 2007 .

Development and program

The LPR was founded on April 21, 2001 and refers to the tradition of Roman Dmowski . It emerged from the merger of the parties Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne and Stronnictwo Narodowe , founded as a reservoir by opponents of Poland's upcoming accession to the EU . It emerged from various national and Catholic groups, u. a. from the national NPP , the Catholic RKN and parts of the right-wing conservative ROP . For a long time she enjoyed the support of the Catholic-nationalist radio station Radio Maryja and its director, Tadeusz Rydzyk , who contributed to the party's great success in the 2001 Sejm elections, as well as the support of the tabloid fact of the German Axel Springer publishing house .

The LPR and the All-Polish Youth , founded by its former chairman Roman Giertych , refer to the tradition of Roman Dmowski , who had dominated the Polish right in the interwar period with a mixture of anti-Semitic , anti-German and clerical ideas . The All-Polish Youth, of which Roman Giertych was chairman for many years, could be regarded as their youth organization until October 2007.

The LPR is for a "Europe of Nations" and opposes the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty . She advocates a liberal economic policy. She opposed Polish participation in the Iraq war and was thus, together with the Samoobrona and the conservative Polish People's Party, in the minority in the Sejm . In 2002, The Economist noted that this party also portrayed the EU as a "communist conspiracy".

The LPR stands for Catholic-conservative values ​​in public life. In its party program, the LPR opposes abortion , euthanasia, human cloning , legal recognition for homosexual couples and any legislation that contradicts Christian ethics , the "principles of moral law and social sense". It represents positions similar to those of the Vatican and, in part, to the former Polish Pope John Paul II.

In the European elections in June 2004, 15.9% of voters voted for the LPR, which won ten seats in the European Parliament . There she belonged to the Europe-critical group Independence and Democracy (Ind / DEM) until March 2006. The party received most of the votes from protest voters who were dissatisfied with EU politics, high unemployment in Poland, Polish participation in the Iraq war and the difficult situation of small-scale Polish agriculture . In July 2007, the party leader of the Samoobrona Andrzej Lepper announced a merger with the LPR. However, this merger was rejected due to personal and programmatic discrepancies.

In the parliamentary elections on October 21, 2007 , the LPR participated in an electoral alliance with the UPR and Prawica Rzeczypospolitej (RP) of the former Sejm Marshal Marek Jurek , with the name Liga Prawicy Rzeczypospolitej (LPR). The electoral alliance received 1.3% of the votes and thus failed because of the Sejm's eight percent clause . The LPR has not been represented in the Sejm since then.

The chairman of the League Polskich Rodzin has been Witold Mieczysław Bałażak since October 10, 2009 . The best-known personalities in the leadership of the LPR are Roman and Maciej Giertych , grandson and son of the Polish ND politician from the inter and post-war period, Jędrzej Giertych .

Controversy

LPR politicians repeatedly make a name for themselves with extremist, anti-Semitic and homophobic statements. For example, the deputy party leader of the LPR, Wojciech Wierzejski, said:

"We are in favor of fighting, but we have to recognize who our enemy is, that is, the enemy of the fatherland and the church."

Always this enemy was " the German was", " the Freemasonry " and " the Jews ". Gays and lesbians are also regularly asked to “step on the gas” or “go to euthanasia ” during marches .

The party-affiliated authors have published anti-Semitic articles; LPR politicians are also critical of more liberal politicians in Poland: Adam Michnik was assigned to the “pink hyenas” who represent non-Polish interests and, with the help of Mossad and “godless, satanic Freemasons, propagate nihilism and demoralization”. These "dark forces" are fierce fighters against a Catholic Polish nation .

In 2007, Ewa Sowińska , LPR MP in the Sejm , had a ban on the children's television series Teletubbies checked on the grounds that one of the characters could be gay because he was carrying a handbag .

Party leader

Election results for the Sejm

  • 2001: 7.87%
  • 2005: 7.97%
  • 2007: 1.3%

Election results for the European Parliament

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roy Palmer Domenico: Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics: LZ. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, ISBN 978-0-313-33890-8 , p. 479 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ Cas Mudde: Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge, 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-35593-3 , p. 157 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Le Monde diplomatique: Lechts und rinks , September 15, 2006.
  4. ^ Polish Broadcasting Service Abroad: All-Polish Youth at the End , October 26, 2007.
  5. ↑ Poland's right-wingers on the rise. The Economist, Dec 12th 2002
  6. ↑ European Parliament: Minutes of the plenary session of the European Parliament , June 1, 2006
  7. ↑ FTD.de: Poland's small coalition parties are merging. ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) July 17, 2007.
  8. ↑ a b Wybory 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wybory2007.wp.pl  
  9. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Neo-Nazis in the ruling party , December 1, 2006.
  10. ^ Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes in Europe, legacies and lessons from the twentieth century. By Jerzy W. Borejsza, Klaus Ziemer, Magdalena Hułas, Instytut Historii (Polska Akademia Nauk). P. 365 .
  11. ↑ ORF.at: Tinky Winky a gay boy? ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. May 29, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / orf.at

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