The Democratic Union ( pl, Unia Demokratyczna) was a liberal Christian-democratic

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Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

. The party was founded in 1991 by

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, Christian democrat Tadeusz Mazowiecki as a merger of the Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action (''Ruch Obywatelski Akcja Demokratyczna'') and the Forum of Right Democrats (''Forum Prawicy Demokratycznej''). The party had a market-socialist profile with Christian-democratic influence. Important members were

Bronisław Geremek Bronisław Geremek (; born Benjamin Lewertow;

Jacek Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń (; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. K ...

, Adam Michnik,

Hanna Suchocka Hanna Stanisława Suchocka (; born 3 April 1946) is a Polish political figure, lawyer, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department, former First Vice-President and Honorary President of the V ...

, Jan Rokita and Aleksander Hall. In 1994 the party merged with the Liberal Democratic Congress into the Freedom Union (''Unia Wolności'').

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Election results

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Senate

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