Front of National Unity


Front of National Unity or National Unity Front was a popular front supervising elections in the Polish People's Republic and also acted as a coalition for the dominant communist Polish United Workers' Party and its allies. It was founded in 1952 as National Front and renamed to Front of National Unity in 1956. It was the heir of the Democratic Bloc which ran in the elections of 1947 before the merger between communists and socialists.
The Front was created by and subordinate to the PZPR. Its membership included all three legal Polish political parties and many organizations. During elections it had a near monopoly on registering candidates who had the right to participate in the elections. As was the case with other popular fronts in the Soviet bloc, the member parties of the Front were largely subservient to the PZPR; they had to accept the PZPR's "leading role" as a condition of their existence.
In 1983 it was disbanded, to be replaced by the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth.
Leaders: Aleksander Zawadzki, Edward Ochab, Janusz Groszkowski, Henryk Jabłoński

Electoral history

Sejm elections