Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej
| Self-defense of the Republic of Poland | |
| Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej | |
| abbreviation | SRP |
| Party leader | 1992–2011 Andrzej Lepper 2011–2012 Andrzej Prochoń Since 2012 Lech Kuropatwiński |
| founding | January 10, 1992 |
| Headquarters | Aleje Jerozolimskie 11/19 00-508 Warszawa |
| Alignment |
Nationalism , left-wing nationalism , populism , Peasant Party , Political Catholicism |
| Colours) |
Red green yellow |
| Website | www.samoobrona.org.pl |
The Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej (mostly just called Samoobrona , German self-defense of the Republic of Poland ) is a political party in Poland . Categorized by political scientists as populist and rural , it is strongly left-wing economic policy, but socio-politically mostly represents Catholic - conservative values and is also classified as Christian-socialist . She was represented in parliament from 2001 to 2007. Since the death of its leader Andrzej Lepper in 2011 at the latest, it has been considered politically insignificant.
History and general
The Samoobrona was founded in 1992 by Andrzej Lepper, initially as a farmers' union . Lepper also led her as party chairman until his death in 2011. The party mainly acted as an advocate for Polish smallholders, who often found themselves in economic and financial difficulties, as well as agricultural workers who became unemployed due to the bankruptcy of agricultural cooperatives . This put it in direct competition with the established Polish People's Party (PSL).
Samoobrona turns against NATO and the EU on foreign policy . Domestically, the Samoobrona distinguishes itself sharply from all liberal movements and, according to its own statements, pursues a “third way” between capitalism and communism .
The Samoobrona sat in the past often extra-parliamentary, sometimes illegal actions. Road blockades have been set up several times to prevent the transport of agricultural products from the EU. In the Sejm , the lower house of the Polish parliament, she also demanded higher subsidies for Polish agriculture, consciously building on the central administration economy of real socialist Poland in the period before 1989.
Previously rather insignificant, the samoobrona gained growing popularity with Poland's accession to the EU . In the 2001 parliamentary elections , it achieved 10.2% of the vote, making it the third largest parliamentary group in the Sejm. After the parliamentary elections in 2005 , Samoobrona surprisingly became a member of the Polish government coalition led by the conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS).
In the early parliamentary elections in 2007 , in which the former Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller , a former member of the League of the Democratic Left (SLD), ran for the Samoobrona , however, the party no longer succeeded in entering the Sejm. A planned electoral alliance with the nationalist League of Polish Families (LPR), which also left the Sejm, had been rejected due to strong programmatic differences.
In the 2009 European elections , Samoobrona could not send a member of parliament with 1.46%.
For the parliamentary elections in 2011 , the party entered under the name Our House Poland - Self-Defense Andrzej Leppers and only won 0.07% of the vote. Lepper, the party's political draft horse, had hanged himself a few weeks earlier in his office in Warsaw .
In February 2013, Samoobrona signed a cooperation agreement with the Belarusian civil society organization Belaja Rus .
For the 2019 parliamentary election, the Samoobrona no longer ran nationwide, but only in individual constituencies with direct candidates for the Sejm and the Senate.
classification
The political scientist Kai-Olaf Lang classifies Samoobrona as a representative of an agrarian populism that also has left-wing populist traits.
Election results for the Sejm
- 1993: 2.78%
- 1997: 0.08%
- 2001: 10.20%
- 2005: 11.41%
- 2007: 1.53%
- 2011: 0.07%
- 2015: 0.03%
literature
- Zbigniew Wilkiewicz: Populism in Poland: The example of Samoobrona under Andrzej Lepper , in: Nikolaus Werz (Ed.): Populism: Populists in Übersee und Europa (= Analyzes, Vol. 79), Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3- 8100-3727-3 , pp. 163-175.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Klaus Ziemer : The political system of Poland. An introduction. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, p. 193.
- ↑ Dominik Hierlemann: Lobbying the Catholic Church. The influence network of the clergy in Poland. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 77.
- ^ Heiko Pleines: Blockades of Reform in Economic Policy. The role of economic actors in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 109.
- ^ Holger Münch: Guiding principles and basic understanding of Polish European policy. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, p. 57.
- ↑ a b Kai-Olaf Lang: Populism in East Central Europe. Forms of manifestation, peculiarities and opportunity structures. In: Populism in Europe - Crisis of Democracy? Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, pp. 137–154, at pp. 142–143.
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Result of the European elections 2009 on the website of the election commission.
- ↑ Belarusian Belaya Rus, Polish Samoobrona ink cooperation agreement , belta.by, February 26, 2013. ( 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.
- ↑ Belaya Rus to study best practices of Polish Samoobrona , belta.by, February 26, 2013. ( 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.
