Polska Jest Najważniejsza
| Poland is most important | |
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| abbreviation | PJN |
| Party leader | Paweł Kowal (2011-2014) |
| founding | November 16, 2010 |
| resolution | December 7, 2013 Merger with Polska Razem |
| Spin-off from | Prawo i Sprawiedliwość |
| Headquarters | ul. Aleje Ujazdowskie 26 00-478 Warszawa |
| Alignment | conservatism |
| EP Group | formerly ECR |
| Colours) | amaranth |
| Website | www.pjn.pl |
Polska Jest Najważniejsza ( Poland is Most Important , PJN) was a moderate- conservative political party in Poland . It split off from Law and Justice (PiS) and later dissolved again with the establishment of the Polska Razem party .
history
It was founded on November 16, 2010 as a split from the national-conservative PiS, initially as an association, later as a party. It was represented by around 15 members in the Sejm and in the Senate and formed its own parliamentary group.
The split was preceded by internal party conflicts in the PiS after the 2010 presidential election , in which a group around PiS MP Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska publicly accused chairman Jarosław Kaczyński of shifting to the right too hard.
After she and her colleague Elżbieta Jakubiak were expelled from the party, they founded the new party PJN together with Sejm MP Paweł Poncyljusz and EU MPs Adam Bielan , Michał Kamiński , Paweł Kowal and Marek Migalski . The party name Poland is Most Important goes back to Kaczyński's official campaign slogan in the 2010 presidential election. Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska became the provisional party chairman.
In January 2011, Senator Jacek Swakoń, a politician who did not belong to the PiS, but to the liberal-conservative Civic Platform (PO) , joined the party for the first time .
In the European Parliament, the PJN members initially remained in the group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), which also included the PiS and of which Michał Kamiński was group chairman. However, he later announced his resignation from this post in order not to transfer the internal Polish conflict ("Polish-Polish war" [sic]) to the European Parliament.
On June 4, 2011, the party's first congress took place. Chairwoman Kluzik-Rostkowska did not run for election as she defected to the PO a little later . The new party leader was Paweł Kowal until it was dissolved .
In the parliamentary elections on October 9, 2011 , the PJN failed with 2.19% of the five percent hurdle and was unable to win a seat in either the Sejm or the Senate.
After leaving the Civic Platform in autumn 2013, ex-Justice Minister Jarosław Gowin founded the new right-wing party Polska Razem together with members of the PJN .
On December 7, 2013, the PJN was dissolved in favor of this newly founded party.
See also
- Solidarna Polska A right-wing party of Zbigniew Ziobro , which also split off from the PiS a year later due to falling out. (Ironically, it was Ziobro himself who justified the expulsion of the two PiS renegades.) Both Polska Razem and Solidarna Polska later entered into a cooperation with the PiS that is often referred to as the United Rights .
Web links
- Archived official homepage of PJN ( memento of June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ),
- New Sejm parliamentary group "Poland is most important" (PDF, 77.5 KB) , background information on the then new PJN party from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung from November 25, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ New party in Poland by: Brigitte Jaeger-Dabek, The Poland magazine of December 13, 2010
- ↑ Eurosceptic Group in Turmoil as Leader Steps Down (English) from: EUobserver of January 27, 2011
- ↑ PJN co-founder changes to ruling party PO : Der Standard from June 6, 2011
- ↑ Gowin allies itself with PJN from: polen-heute.de of October 4, 2013