Polish Coalition


The Polish Coalition is a political coalition created by the Polish People's Party. It is Christian democratic and centrist.

History

The coalition was first mentioned on 4 February 2019 at a press conference as a union of the Polish People's Party, the Union of European Democrats and Modern, which supported former Wrocław mayor Rafał Dutkiewicz. In the May 2019 European Parliament election, the PSL, Nowoczesna and UED participated in framing the European Coalition; left-wing parties were also included.
The PSL general council decided to build the Polish Coalition, a centre-right coalition, on 1 June of that year. The desire for a coalition was first declared by the League of Polish Families and the UED. The PSL also held talks with Kukiz'15, the Right Wing of the Republic and the Nonpartisan Local Government Activists movement, and invited Civic Platform.
The PSL-UED parliamentary coalition changed its name to PSL-Polish Coalition on 4 July 2019, and was joined by former members of PO and Novoczesna. Two days later, the PSL general council announced that an alliance with PO is a coalition priority. Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed UED cooperation.
On 23 July, the PSL's Piotr Zgorzelski confirmed that the Alliance of Democrats and Labour Party are part of the coalition and talks with Kukiz'15 and Nonpartisan Local Governments Association were cordial and would end soon. A week later, Marek Sawicki confirmed that the Association of Catholic Families had joined the coalition.
The Silesians Together party and the Jura-Silesian Association European Home joined the coalition on 5 August 2019. Three days later, Kukiz'15 joined the coalition. One member each from Civic Platform and the League of Polish Families were also on the PSL list, despite those parties not belonging to the coalition.
In the 2019 parliamentary election, the PSL received 8.55 percent of the vote; this was better than the 2015 election. The coalition has 30 seats in the Sejm: 20 from the PSL, six from Kukiz'15, one from the UED, and three independents. It has three senators: two from the PSL and one from the UED.
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz became coalition's candidate for the 2020 presidential election. He received 459,365 votes which was 2.4%, coming fifth among eleven candidates

2019 election

Ninth [Sejm and 10th Senate