The Polish National Party ( pl, Polska Partia Narodowa) was a fringe

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and ultra-conservative

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led by Leszek Bubel. Its motto was: "I am Polish, therefore I have Polish obligations", as quoted after the Polish politician and statesman

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whose ideas were used by the starting point for its ideology.

History and leadership

The leader of the party during the 1990s was Boleslaw Tejkowski. Both the party and Tejkowski were notorious for their virulent nationalist and antisemitic propaganda. The party was registered on March 22, 2004. In 2004 the party participated in the European Parliament elections and took the last 21st place with 0.04% votes. In the 2005 elections for the Polish Senate and

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, the party received 34,127 votes or 0.29% of the total.
Information from National Electoral Commission In Presidential elections of the same year, Leszek Bubel received 18,828 votes, or 0.13%
Information from National Electoral Commission. Presidential Election The Republic of Poland. 9 October 2005 At one point in 2005, the party had over 7,000 members. The party did not compete in the 2007 Parliamentary elections nor in the 2009 European Parliament elections. The Polish National Party was deregistered on December 10, 2014 by the District Court of Warsaw.

The Bubel band

At the beginning of 2008 chairman of the party Leszek Bubel appeared on

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with the song "Longinus Zerwimycka". The song made fun of Jews in Poland and told them to go to the

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. Bubel released another video clip: "Bzykający Rabin"
"Bzykający Rabin" on YouTube ("Buzzing Rabbi"). The word "bzykać" in Polish slang means "to engage in sex". The PPN website's 2008 domain name "donaldtusk.net" was described by Bubel as a bad joke.
Dziennik.pl, Kraj; 2008-06-22 Bubel and his band have released six albums: * ''Longinus Zerwimycka'' (

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) * ''Polskie '' (

) * ''W hołdzie Narodowym Siłom Zbrojnym'' (

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) * ''Żołnierze Wyklęci'' (

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) * ''Rycerze Idei'' (

) * ''Życie i Śmierć Dla Narodu'' (

)

References

External links

Official website
in Polish
Program Polskiej Partii Narodowej
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History and leadership

The Bubel band

See also

References

External links