Polish People's Party
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Polish People's Party
Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe |
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| Leader | Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz |
| Founded | 5 May 1990 |
| Headquarters | ul. Kopernika 36/40, 00-924 Warsaw |
| Membership (2015) | 140,000 |
| Ideology |
Agrarianism Regionalism Christian democracy Green conservatism |
| Political position | Centre to Centre-right |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| European Parliament group | European People's Party |
| Colours | Green |
| Sejm |
16 / 460
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| Senate |
0 / 100
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| European Parliament |
4 / 51
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| Regional assemblies |
153 / 555
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| Website | |
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The Polish People's Party (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, abbreviated to PSL (traditionally translated as Polish Peasants' Party), often shortened to ludowcy ('the populars') is an agrarian and Christian democraticpolitical party in Poland. It has 16 members of the Sejm and four Members of the European Parliament. It was the junior partner in a coalition with Civic Platform. It is a member of the European People's Party and the European People's Party group in the European Parliament.
The party was formed in 1990 as a left-wing party. The PSL formed a coalition with the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) after winning 132 seats in the Sejm at the 1993 election, with PSL leader Waldemar Pawlak as Prime Minister until 1995. The party fell to 27 at the next election, and moved towards the centre at the end of the 1990s. In 2001, the party re-entered a coalition with the SLD, but withdrew in 2003. After the 2007 election, the PSL entered a coalition with the centre-right Civic Platform (PO).
The party's name traces its tradition to an agrarian party in Austro-Hungarian-controlled Galician Poland, which sent MPs to the parliament in Vienna. Until the 2014 local election, the PSL formed local government coaltion in fifteen to sixteen regional assemblies.
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