Twój Ruch

Your movement
Twój Ruch
abbreviation	TR
Party leader	Marzenna Karkoszka, Kamil Żebrowski
founding	June 1, 2011 (RP) October 6, 2013 (TR)
Headquarters	Ulica Nowy Świat 39, 00-029 Warsaw
Alignment	Anti-clericalism , progressivism , social democracy , left-wing liberalism
Number of members	approx. 200 (2019)
EP Group	formerly S&D
Youth organization	Ruch Młodych
Colours)	Blue orange 
Website	www.twojruch.eu

Janusz Palikot attaching his apostasy .

Former gay MP Robert Biedroń

Twój Ruch (German: your movement or it's your turn, TR for short ) is a political party in Poland , which was founded in June 2011 as the Palikot movement (Polish: Ruch Palikota , RP for short ) and pursues left-liberal , anti-clerical , progressivist positions .

In the 2011 parliamentary elections , it immediately became the third strongest force, but has sunk into insignificance since the 2015 parliamentary elections .

history

Emergence

The initiator of the Twój Ruch party is the entrepreneur and politician Janusz Palikot , known in Poland primarily for his unconventional media appearances , who was a member of the Polish parliament for the Platforma Obywatelska (German: Civic Platform ) party from 2005 and was counted among the left-wing liberal wing. In 2010, Palikot founded the left-liberal citizens 'movement Nowoczesna Polska (German: Modernes Polen ) and announced his departure from the citizens' platform . In the same year he also founded the movement named after him in support of Palikot (Polish: Ruch Poparcia Palikota ) and the following year prematurely resigned his mandate as a member of the Sejm in order to finally join the Ruch Palikota party named after him at the competent court to register.

In mid-2013 there was a formal merger of the RP party with the citizens' initiative Europa Plus of the former President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, which stands for more European integration . Shortly afterwards, officials from the two social democratic parties Racja and Polska Partia Pracy also joined the alliance. In the course of the year, numerous members of the parties Demokraci (German: Democrats ) and Socjaldemokracja Polska (German: Social Democracy of Poland ), as well as non-party politicians, such as the former Interior Minister Ryszard Kalisz , joined the team.

After the party was renamed Twój Ruch in October 2013, the concept of euro federalism moved more into focus. In the long term, the party should also represent a serious alternative for the previously established, but comparatively low-membership parties of the center-left camp. She was also supported by the former Prime Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz .

Parliamentary elections 2011 and 2015

In the 2011 parliamentary elections , the party received 10.0 percent of the vote, making it the third party in the Sejm .

Very few of the new MPs were known to the Polish public before the election campaign. Exceptions were the LGBT activist Robert Biedroń , who was the first openly gay MP in the Sejm, the feminist Wanda Nowicka and the first transsexual in the Polish parliament, Anna Grodzka . The party received strong support, especially among younger, metropolitan groups of voters. A third of their electorate was under 29 years of age.

The sociologist Radosław Markowski commented on the party's electoral success that the country's established and conservative parties could not provide answers to current questions that are now moving many people in Poland. In addition, many politically left-wing voters remained “homeless” until the end, as the social democratic party Sojusz Lewicy Demokratieycznej was not eligible for many Poles because of the communist past of some of its functionaries. Former President Lech Wałęsa welcomed the fact that someone like Janusz Palikot wanted to “ventilate” parliament and the publicist Jerzy Urban confirmed that the party had a “political future” as it was part of a broad protest movement that had established itself in Europe and North Africa.

In the presidential election in May 2015 , party leader Palikot ran himself and received 1.42% of the vote.

Due to the very low poll numbers for the upcoming parliamentary elections in autumn 2015 , the electoral alliance Zjednoczona Lewica (German: United Left) was founded in July together with the SLD and other left-wing parties . Co-party chairwoman Barbara Nowacka was the top candidate of this coalition. However, with 7.55%, the alliance narrowly missed entry into the Sejm, which is the first time in Polish history that there is no decidedly left force in the Sejm.

Development since 2015

At the end of February 2016, Barbara Nowacka and other - partly former - members of left-wing groups presented the new political association Inicjatywa Polska (German: Initiative Poland ) to the public . The United Left project is finally over. From 2018 onwards, other members became involved in the newly formed Wiosna party , which has a similar program.

At the party congress on March 2, 2019, Marzenna Karkoszka and Kamil Żebrowski co-chaired, while Palikot finally withdrew from active politics, as he had previously announced on his blog on December 31, 2017 Palikot.

For the 2019 parliamentary elections , TR is running along with other left-wing parties such as Wiosna and Lewica Razem on the lists of the SLD.

Positions

In the media, the party has often been described as a “ protest party ”, “ anti-clerical ” or “ radical- liberal”. In her election campaign for the 2011 parliamentary elections , she pleaded, among other things, “for a secular state without church interference”, a more liberal abortion law , the approval of artificial insemination using the in vitro method , the legalization of soft drugs and free access to contraceptives and the Internet .

Furthermore, Twój Ruch calls for the rights of homosexuals to be strengthened and for same-sex partnerships to be recognized . With regard to the separation of church and state , financial resources for dioceses are to be cut and the grading of voluntary religious education in schools is to be abolished. Instead of state financing of parties, part of the tax should be able to be paid in favor of a specific party or church community if so desired. In addition, the party calls for a reduction in national debt , a halving of defense spending, relief for smaller companies and a flat tax .

In an interview with Newsweek , Janusz Palikot also spoke out in favor of joining forces with Germany and “loosening the alliance with the USA” in relation to Poland's foreign policy .

References

Web links

Commons : Twój Ruch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the party (Polish)
• Analysis of the Research Center for Eastern Europe (PDF file; 971 kB)
• Analysis of the Heinrich Boll Foundation (Engl.)

Footnotes

1. ↑ https://konkret24.tvn24.pl/polityka,112/ponad-milion-zlotych-jak-twoj-ruch-wydal-w-2018-roku-subwencje-budzetowa,950981.html
2. ↑ Hard Tones Against Poland's Elites ( Memento from October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), SF Tagesschau from October 3, 2010, accessed on October 15, 2011
3. ↑ Palikot zakłada zespół i nie chce w nim PO ( Memento of August 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), dziennik.pl of August 24, 2010, accessed on October 15, 2011
4. ↑ http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/polityka/artykuly/423309,cimoszewicz-deklaruje-ze-mogly-wystartowac-do-pe-z-kwasniewskim.html
5. ^ Official final result of the parliamentary elections in Poland 2011 (PDF; 2.7 MB), Presspublica of October 13, 2011, accessed on October 15, 2011
6. ^ Young city dwellers as voters , ORF of October 10, 2011, accessed on October 14, 2011
7. ↑ “Inicjatywa Polska” - nowe lewicowe stowarzyszenie , report on Interia.pl from February 20, 2016 (Polish)
8. ↑ Wiosna Biedronia powstała na gruzach starych partii Janusza Palikota. February 4, 2019, accessed October 2, 2019 (Polish). 
9. ↑ http://twojruch.eu/nowi-wspolprzewodniczacy-twojego-ruchu/
10. ↑ "Podjąłem tę decyzję, aby ostatecznie rozstać się z Polityka". Retrieved October 2, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Ruchy miejskie mogą never pójść do wyborów for lewica. Śpiewak: próby podjęcia rozmów są zbywane - Polsat News. Retrieved October 2, 2019 (Polish). 
12. ^ Anti-clericals surprise elections in Poland , ORF October 10, 2011, accessed on October 15, 2011
13. ↑ The Third Republic is stabilizing - Poland ahead of the 2011 parliamentary elections (PDF; 268 kB), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung from October 11, 2011, accessed on October 15, 2011
14. ↑ Relaxed, open, revealing , TAZ from October 10, 2011, accessed on October 15, 2011
15. ↑ Will the incumbent government be re-elected? , Focus from October 9, 2011, accessed October 15, 2011
16. ↑ Tusk is the clear winner , n-tv from October 9, 2011, accessed on October 15, 2011
17. ^ Tusk begins coalition talks , n-tv on October 10, 2011, accessed on October 15, 2011
18. ^ Tusk suggests Kaczynski , Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 9, 2011, accessed on October 14, 2011
19. ^ Party for Scandals, Extravagance and Exaggeration , Welt Online, October 8, 2011, accessed October 16, 2011