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 A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or po ...

of Polish

right wing Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, authori ...

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 Democracy, d ...

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 and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of the First Worl ...

. Its leader and main activist was Wojciech Korfanty. In 1922 ''Chadecja'' became part of the Chrześcijański Związek Jedności Narodowej (''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 The ''Centrolew'' (, ''Center-Left'') was a coalition of several Polish political parties ( Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie", German Socialist Labour Party of Poland, Polish People's Party "Piast", National Workers' Party, Polish Socialist Part ...

coalition in 1929. Member of Front Morges 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