Polish Christian Democratic Party ( pl, Polskie Stronnictwo Chrześcijańskiej Demokracji, PSChD, commonly known as ''Chrześcijańska Demokracja'' or ''Chadecja''Note that the terms ''Chrześcijańska Demokracja'' or ''Chadecja'' in Poland can refer to the dominant Polish Christian context), was a political party of Polish right wing

Christian democracy Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...

faction existing in the first year of the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of ...

. Its leader and main activist was

Wojciech Korfanty Wojciech Korfanty (; born Adalbert Korfanty; 20 April 1873 – 17 August 1939) was a Polish activist, journalist and politician, who served as a member of the German parliaments, the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, and later, in the Polish ' ...

. In 1922 ''Chadecja'' became part of the

Chrześcijański Związek Jedności Narodowej Christian Union of National Unity ( pl, Chrześcijański Związek Jedności Narodowej, ChZJN, commonly known as ''Chjena'' - the word pronounced as ''hiena'', being the Polish name for hyena) was an electoral coalition of Popular National Union, C ...

(''Chiena'') coalition. Part of the

Chjeno-Piast Chjeno-Piast was an unofficial (yet common) name of a coalition of Polish political parties formed in 1923. It included the Polish People's Party "Piast" and an older coalition 1922 Christian Association of National Unity (''Chrześcijański Zwi ...

coalition after signing the Lanckorona Pact in 1923. After the May Coup of 1926, split into three factions. Member of Centrolew coalition in 1929. Member of

Front Morges The Front Morges was a political alliance of centrist political parties ( Polish Christian Democratic Party, National Workers' Party, Związek Hallerczyków) of interbellum Poland. It was founded in 1936 in the Swiss village of Morges by General ...

coalition in 1937, and merged with

National Workers' Party The National Workers' Party ( pl, Narodowa Partia Robotnicza, NPR) was a political party in Poland. History The NPR was established in Warsaw on 23 May 1920 by a merger of the National Workers' Union and the National Party of Workers.Jerzy Jan L ...

to form the Labor Party.

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Catholic political parties Defunct political parties in Poland Political parties established in 1919 Political parties disestablished in 1928 Conservative parties in Poland Defunct Christian political parties 1919 establishments in Poland {{poland-party-stub