Organisation of the Polish Nation - Polish League
Organisation of the Polish Nation - Polish League Organizacja Narodu Polskiego – Liga Polska | |
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| Abbreviation | ONP-LP |
| Leader | Stanisław Bujnicki |
| Founder | Jan Pyszko |
| Founded | 15 June 2000 |
| Headquarters | Al. Ujazdowskie 6a/25, 00-461 Warsaw[1] |
| Membership (2014) | 2000[2] |
| Ideology | Political Catholicism[3] Protectionism Economic nationalism[4] Christian democracy Polish minority interests[3] |
| Political position | Centre-right[5] |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism[3] |
| International affiliation | Liga Polska |
| Colours | White Red |
| Sejm | 0 / 460
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| Senate | 0 / 100
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| European Parliament | 0 / 51
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| Regional assemblies | 0 / 552
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| City presidents | 0 / 117
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| Website | |
| onp-lp.pl | |
Organisation of the Polish Nation - Polish League (Polish: Organizacja Narodu Polskiego – Liga Polska, ONP-LP) is a Polish centre-right political party founded in 2000 that actively participated in local and parliamentary Polish elections, bringing together activists from Poland and Poles in exile. The party was created with an aim to create a common front for Polish communities abroad, providing them legal and political representation.[6] Ideologically, the party declares to stand for and strictly adhere to "national, cultural and Christian values born out of the over a thousand-year history of the Polish State".[5]
The party promotes Catholic, Christian democratic and corporatist values, considering "land, resources, property, landscape, environmental, cultural values" to be an integral good and following the Catholic social teaching. One of the main priorities of the party are the Polish communities and repatriates from Russia and Kazakhstan, with Organisation of the Polish Nation actively representing their interests. The ONP-LP is inspired by and claims to be a successor of the liberal democratic Polish émigré organisation Liga Polska, founded in Switzerland by Zygmunt Miłkowski following the failure of the January Uprising.[3]
History[edit]
In 1990, the Polish Basel Forum was established to assist the transformation of the Third Polish Republic at the economic level. However, due to a lack of capacity, this did not materialise. It was therefore decided to establish a political party. On 25 October 2000, a grouping under the name "Polish League - Polish Nation's Organisation" was registered in the Register of Political Parties. On 24 February 2001, a founding congress was held with the participation of delegates from Poland, Western Europe and North and South America. The creation of party structures began in the country, as well as abroad (in Norway, Chicago, France, Switzerland, Australia and Canada). In 2001, attempts by the party to co-operate with Stronnictwo Narodowe activists failed, and they subsequently formed Liga Polskich Rodzin. However, some members of the Polish League ran on LPR lists, failing to gain seats. In 2002 the party took part in the local elections, and in 2003 in the 2003 Polish European Union membership referendum it campaigned to vote against Poland's membership in the European Union.[4]
In the 2005 Polish parliamentary election, The Polish Nation's Organisation - Polish League put forward six candidates for the Senate, but none of them obtained a seat. They were:
- Mieczysław Biliński. - Krosno District,
- Janusz Dobrowolski - Siedlce District,
- Marek Głogoczowski - Bialystok district,
- Michał Okrześ - Legnica district,
- Janusz Soroka - Zielona Góra district,
- Józef Wysocki - Wrocław district.
Together they won 61,038 votes. In the elections to the Sejm, 3 ONP-LP representatives ran unsuccessfully:
- Witold Kruszyński - Wałbrzych district, Patriotic Movement list, received 89 votes,
- Roman Urbański - District of Gdynia, list Dom Ojczysty, received 45 votes,
- Mieczysław Sass - District Bydgoszcz, Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski list, received 26 votes.
The ONP-LP candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential election was party chairman Jan Pyszko - he received 10,371 votes, i.e. 0.07%.
In 2007 to the Sejm and in 2009 to the Parliament, the party's candidate was the then chairman of the party's central board, Jan Eugeniusz Malinowski. In the Warsaw district, in the elections in 2007, running on the Law and Justice list, he received 266 votes, and in the elections to the European Parliament in 2009, running on the Libertas list, he received 128 votes.
In the parliamentary elections in 2011, two ONP-LP representatives ran for the Sejm from the Right of the Republic list. Mieczysław Biliński in Krosno district received 34 votes, and Eugeniusz Murawski in Warsaw II received 25 votes. Before the local elections in 2014, the party was supposed to set up a joint committee with Samoobrona Odrodzenie, but the agreement was ultimately not reached. In the parliamentary elections in 2015, party member Jerzy Strzelecki ran for the Senate in Ostrołęka district on behalf of the Citizens for Parliament committee, coming third out of 4 candidates (he received 18,107 votes, i.e. 13.09%).[7]
ONP-LP cooperated with Normalny Kraj and Polska Patriotyczna. In the parliamentary elections in 2019, party member Adam Bednarczyk opened the Action of Disappointed Retirees and Pensioners list in the Siedlce district, receiving 398 votes. He also put forward his candidacy in the 2020 Polish presidential election,[8] but did not collect enough signatures to register his candidacy.
Party presidents[edit]
The party's president until his death (18 October 2009) was Dr. Jan Pyszko, a candidate for President of the Republic of Poland in 2005. On 27 March 2010 he was replaced by Janusz Lech Siemiński, who died on 15 September 2012. He was succeeded by Stanisław Bujnicki.
Program[edit]
The Organisation of the Polish Nation - Polish League describes itself as a patriotic and Christian grouping of a social and national character, and claims strict adherence to the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Catholic social teaching. It sets as its main objective the defence of the national identity of the homeland. It brings together activists from Poland and abroad.[3]
The party believes that state ownership in strategic sectors must be maintained and protected by adopting a package of laws guaranteeing state control over strategic sectors of the economy. It also calls for nationalised agriculture, and proposes a protectionist package that would protect Polish farmers from competitive markets. The party also wants to introduce a law that would prohibit the sale of Polish land to foreign legal persons and organisations.[9]
The party's programme postulates include:[3]
- creation of new jobs in Poland through social and private investment with the involvement of Polish capital;
- creating legal, institutional and financial bases for the functioning of small and medium-sized enterprises;
- ensuring Poland's energy security and the use of renewable energy in every municipality in the country;
- increasing the importance of Poland's maritime economy and maritime and inland fisheries;
- introducing free and generally accessible education in Poland;
- ensuring full range of medical services and availability of medicines for all Poles;
- improving working conditions and living standards of the Polish population;
- launching the Polish-Polish Investment Bank, the Polish-Polish Foundation, the Polish-Polish Exchange and other joint institutions;
- introduction of single-mandate electoral districts;
- introduction of a constituency for Polonia.
References[edit]
- ^ "Organizacja Narodu Polskiego - Liga Polska". bip.warszawa.so.gov.pl (in Polish). 22 December 2004. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ Bujnicki, Stanisław (24 November 2014). "Wezwanie wszystkich Członków Organizacji Narodu Polskiego". onp-lp.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 3 June 2017. Retrieved 2023-08-20.
- ^ a b c d e f "Statut". onp-lp.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 3 June 2017. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ a b Mateusz J. Różański (7 August 2011). "Nacjonalizm po polsku". tygodnikprzeglad.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ a b "Organizacja Narodu Polskiego zaprasza". niedziela.pl (in Polish). 31 December 2004. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ "Zamiast uchodźców z Afryki chcą repatriantów ze Wschodu". ddb24.pl (in Polish). 11 September 2015. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ Piotr Ossowski (17 September 2015). "Kto kandyduje z Ostrołęki do Sejmu i Senatu?". to.com.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ Szaflarski, Michał (10 March 2020). "Wybory prezydenckie 2020. Kandydaci na prezydenta i kalendarium wyborcze". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ^ Aleksandra Jankowska (31 December 2004). "Organizacja Narodu Polskiego zaprasza (2)". niedziela.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-08-08.
External links[edit]
- "Strona archiwalna Organizacji Narodu Polskiego – Ligi Polskiej". onp-lp.pl. Archived from the original on 2017-09-22.