The New Hope (, NN), previously known as Confederation for the Renewal of the Republic Liberty and Hope (, KORWiN/Liberty), is a

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political party in Poland. It is currently led by Sławomir Mentzen. It was founded in 2015 by Korwin-Mikke as a result of his removal from

Congress of the New Right The Congress of the New Right ( pl, Kongres Nowej Prawicy, Nowa Prawica or just KNP) is an economically libertarian, socially conservative and Eurosceptic list of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party was founded on ...

, his former party. Among the party's other members are Przemysław Wipler, who held a seat in the Polish

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and Robert Iwaszkiewicz, Member of the European Parliament. The party's Polish name was originally a

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of the founder's name Korwin-Mikke, who took part in the 2015 presidential election. In 2018, the party formed a coalition with

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called

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. The party have currently three members in the Sejm.

History

The party was formed shortly after

Janusz Korwin-Mikke Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke (; born 27 October 1942), also known by his initials JKM or simply as Korwin, is a Polish far-right politician, paleolibertarian and author. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018. He was the ...

was removed from the chairmanship of the

(KNP). The pro-Korwin faction of the KNP ended up forming the KORWiN party ahead of the

2015 Polish presidential election Presidential elections were held in Poland on 10 and 24 May 2015. In the first round of voting Law and Justice (PiS) candidate, lawyer and Member of the European Parliament, Andrzej Duda received the greatest number of votes with a share of 34.7 ...

. Janusz Korwin-Mikke finished fourth in that election, earning 3.26% of the vote (486,084 votes). In the

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the party earned 4.76% of the vote (722,999 votes) but it failed to reach the 5% electoral threshold needed to get any seats. The party gained two seats during the VIII Sejm after

Jacek Wilk Jacek Wilk (born 17 August 1974 in Kocina, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) is a Polish barrister, economist and politician. He was the official candidate of the Congress of the New Right party for the office of President of Poland in the 2015 Pol ...

and later

Jakub Kulesza Jakub Kulesza (born 12 November 1990) is a Polish politician and a Member of Parliament. Kulesza studied electronics, computer science and telecommunications at the Warsaw University of Technology. He was employed in enterprise computing. Kule ...

left

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to join KORWiN. Ahead of the

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, KORWiN formed an alliance with the

(RN) and other right-wing parties called the

. The coalition failed to get any seats however the main parties stayed together to contest the

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. The Confederation ended up receiving 6.81% of the vote (1,256,953 votes) and 11 seats. KORWiN got five of those seats. For the 2020 Polish presidential election KORWiN endorsed vice-chairman of the RN

Krzysztof Bosak Krzysztof Bosak (, born 13 June 1982) is a far-right Polish politician. He was a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Sejm for the League of Polish Families from 2005 to 2007 and has been a member of the Sejm again since 2019 for the Con ...

, after he won the 2019–20 Confederation presidential primary. Bosak received 6.8% of the vote (1,317,380) which was by far the best result of any candidate (or party) endorsed by Janusz Korwin-Mikke. In 2022 three MP's from KORWiN left the party, creating a new one called Wolnościowcy.

Ideology and position

The New Hope has been described as a

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and

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party. It has been ideologically described as libertarian-conservative,

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, and conservative-liberal. It supports lowering taxes and implementing radical privatisation, while regarding social issues, the party is

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. It has been also described as

. It supports the re-establishment of the

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, and has expressed hard Eurosceptic rhetoric towards the

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Programme

The party's programme preamble calls for: * rebuilding the basic values of the Polish culture and " Latin civilization" and the Christian moral foundations of society, * construction of

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, fair and efficient governance based on the

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, * implementation of the "eternal human aspirations for Freedom", * respect for the private property of citizens and the fruits of their labor, * striving for the implementation of the Polish national interest in the international arena and optimal conditions for the development of the Republic of Poland, * strengthening the role of the family and creating favorable conditions for its development. Other issues mentioned in the program are: * the adoption of a new Polish constitution which takes into account the "principle of no harm to the will" and the introduction of a

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; strengthening the tripartite division of powers by prohibiting the combination of positions in the legislative, executive and judiciary (especially the functions of a deputy and minister); * the reduction of the role of the

to the body deciding on the amount of taxes and controlling the executive power, and the reduction of the number of ministries; * the creation of an eleven-person Council of State elected by the

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and appointed by the

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. According to the group's leader, it would take over the legislative initiative from the government * elimination of PIT and CIT income taxes as well as inheritance and donation tax, as well as the abolition of compulsory pension and health insurance while respecting acquired rights; * introducing in the constitution a ban on adopting a budget with a deficit in peacetime; regaining sovereignty which, according to the party, requires abandoning the

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and rebuilding the treaty base of the European Union; * halving defense spending; * reintroduction of the death penalty.

Election results

Sejm

Presidential

References

External links

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