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Częstochowa City Council
Częstochowa City Council () is a unicameral governing body of the city of Częstochowa, the second biggest city in Silesian Voivodeship. It consists of 28 councilors elected in free elections for a five-year term (since 2018). The current chairman of the council is Zdzisław Wolski (Democratic Left Alliance (Poland), SLD). Election results 2024 All seats on the city council were being contested in the 2024 Polish local elections, 2024 election. The number of seats was lowered from 28 to 25. 2018 All 28 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2018 Polish local elections, 2018 election. 2014 All 28 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2014 Polish local elections, 2014 election. 2010 All 28 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2010 Polish local elections, 2010 election. 2006 All 28 seats on the city council were being contested in the 2006 Polish local elections, 2006 election. 2002 All 28 seats on the city council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civic Coalition (Poland)
The Civic Coalition (, KO) is a big tent political alliance currently ruling in Poland. The alliance was formed in 2018 around Civic Platform, in opposition to the then-ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. History The Civic Coalition was originally created by the Civic Platform and Modern parties for 2018 local elections. In June 2019, it was announced that the Civic Coalition would be slated to participate in the 2019 Polish parliamentary election and Civic Platform and Modern would form a joint parliamentary club. The Greens announced at the end of July 2019 that they would participate in the elections as part of the Coalition. In August 2019, the Silesian Autonomy Movement and other member organisations of the Silesian Electoral Agreement joined the Coalition. 2018 local elections and present In the 2018 local elections, the Civic Coalition received 26.97% of votes (second place after Law and Justice), winning 194 seats. In 8 voivodeships, it obtained the best resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Polish Local Elections
The 2018 Polish local elections were held on October 21 for all 16 regional assemblies (''sejmik wojewódzki''), 380 county (''powiat'') councils, and 2477 municipal (''gmina'') councils. There were also direct elections for heads (''wójt'') of municipalities and mayors, with a second, run-off round for these offices on November 4. The local elections were a victory of the ruling Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice (PiS), though the opposition Civic Coalition (Poland), Civic Coalition (PO) maintained control of the majority of cities, including the capital Warsaw. Voivodeship councils Election results (%) Seats Distribution Powiat councils Gmina councils Mayors Total elected mayors by alliance and party Voivodeship capital mayoral elections Source: National Electoral Commission (Poland), National Electoral Commission ''Bold – elected candidates'' Warsaw Warsaw Mayor Warsaw City Council Kraków Kraków Mayor Kraków City Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union
Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union (Polish: Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej-Unia Pracy, SLD-UP) was an electoral committee and a coalition of two Polish centre-left political parties: Democratic Left Alliance and Labour Union. At the national level, the alliance arose at the time of the 2001 parliamentary elections and continued through the 2004 elections to the European Parliament. The alliance came together again for the 2009 and 2014 European parliamentary elections. The SLD-UP won a stunning victory at the 2001 parliamentary elections, gaining 41% of the vote, and formed the government with the Polish People's Party. During the 2001–2005 term, there occurred a splintering of the alliance and there came into being four left-wing political caucuses in the Polish parliament: * Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) * Labour Union (UP) * Social Democracy of Poland (SDPL) * People's Democratic Party (PLD) The SLD-UP maintained their alliance for the European parliamentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Polish Local Elections
The 2002 Polish local elections were held in two parts, with the first round on 27 October and the second on 10 November 2002. All 16 provincial voivodeship sejmiks, 314 powiat county councils, 2,748 Gmina municipal councils, and town and city mayors were up for election. The event was the first of its kind to allow direct elections for mayors of municipalities. The local polls followed one year after the decisive victory of the Democratic Left Alliance in the 2001 parliamentary elections and were seen as a test of the popularity of the Democratic Left Alliance and Polish People's Party coalition government under Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Voivodship councils References Notes External linksNational Electoral Commission - 2002 results {{DEFAULTSORT:Polish Local Elections, 2002 2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-Defence Of The Republic Of Poland
The Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (, SRP) is a Christian socialism, Christian socialist, Populism, populist, agrarianism, agrarian, and Nationalism, nationalist list of political parties in Poland, political party and trade union in Poland. The party promotes agrarian socialist and Christian socialism#In Catholicism, Catholic socialist economic policies combined with a left-wing populist, Anti-globalization movement, anti-globalization and anti-neoliberalism, anti-neoliberal rhetoric. The party describes itself as left-wing, although it stresses that it belongs to the "patriotic left" and follows Catholic social teaching. The party is sympathetic to Polish People's Republic, Communist Poland, which led political scientists to label the party as neocommunist, post-communist, and far-left. Though considered a "political chameleon", Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland is generally regarded as a left-wing party by historians and political scientists. According to :pl:Andrz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Polish Families
The League of Polish Families ( Polish: ''Liga Polskich Rodzin,'' , LPR) is a social conservative political party in Poland, with many far-right elements in the past. The party's original ideology was that of the National Democracy movement which was headed by Roman Dmowski, however, in 2006 its leader Roman Giertych distanced himself from that heritage. It was represented in the Polish parliament, forming part of the cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński until the latter dissolved in September 2007. In the 2007 parliamentary election, it failed to gain the 5% threshold required to enter the Sejm and lost all its seats, even failing to cross the 3% threshold for eligibility to receive government funding. Since then, the party has become a minor political force, but continues to exist. The All-Polish Youth used to be affiliated with the party as its youth wing, but these two organisations later severed their relations. History The LPR was created just before the elections in 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left And Democrats
Left and Democrats (, LiD) was a centre-left electoral alliance of List of political parties in Poland, political parties in Poland which was created on 3 September 2006, before the Warsaw municipal election of 2006. The coalition's aim was to provide an alternative for both Law and Justice (Poland), Law and Justice and Civic Platform, which have been Poland's two major political parties since 2005. LiD contested their first national election in 2007 Polish legislative election, October 2007 and won 53 seats to the Polish parliament, the Sejm. The LiD alliance was dissolved in April 2008, following a rift between the member parties. Origins On 15 September 2006 the Coalition Election Committee was officially appointed under the name of "SLD+SdPl+PD+UP – Lewica i Demokraci" (containing the abbreviations for all the member parties as well as the name 'Leftists and Democrats'). The four member parties were: *Democratic Left Alliance (Poland), Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Polish Local Elections
The 2006 Polish local elections were held in two parts. with its first round on 12 November and the second on 26 November 2006. In the election's first round, voters chose 39,944 gmina councillors, 6,284 powiat councillors and 561 deputies to provincial voivodeship sejmiks. Additionally, 2,460 city and town mayors, borough leaders and other officials were decided by direct or runoff elections in the second round. The elections were seen as a test to the government of Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, whose coalition between his own Law and Justice party and its junior coalition partners, the Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland and the League of Polish Families, had undergone a severe crisis two months prior. Background Following the appointment of Jarosław Kaczyński as Prime Minister following the resignation of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the coalition between Kaczyński's own rightist Law and Justice, the agrarian Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland and the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Polish Local Elections
The 2010 Polish local elections were held in two parts, with its first round on 21 November and the second on 5 December. The first round included elections of deputies to provincial voivodeship sejmiks, as well for gmina and powiat councilors. The second round of elections were marked for mayors, borough leaders, and other positions decided by runoff elections. The local elections were seen as a test to the ruling Civic Platform and Polish People's Party coalition government under Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Background As the first polls since the July presidential elections, which saw Civic Platform candidate Bronisław Komorowski defeat Law and Justice MP and former Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, the 2010 local elections were characterized as a test to the administration of Donald Tusk. In the weeks prior to the elections, polls conducted by the CBOS Institute showed the ruling Civic Platform party with a comfortable lead over its rivals. The opposition Law and Justi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of The New Right
The Congress of the New Right (, Nowa Prawica or just KNP) is a right-wing Eurosceptic political party in Poland. The party was founded on 25 March 2011 by Janusz Korwin-Mikke, from the merger of the Liberty and Lawfulness (WiP) with several members of the Real Politics Union (UPR). The former leader Korwin-Mikke was ousted from the party in 2015, upon revelations that he had fathered 2 children out of wedlock. The party assumed the official name Congress of the New Right on 12 May 2011. History The political organisation KNP was founded by supporters of Liberty and Lawfulness leader, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who finished fourth in the 2010 Polish presidential election, receiving 2.5% votes (over 400,000). Taking advantage of his rising popularity, a group of political activists derived from both the former party of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, the Real Politics Union, and the Liberty and Lawfulness (dissolved three days earlier), came together on 9 October 2010 to form a new part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish People's Party
The Polish People's Party (, PSL) is a conservative political party in Poland. It is currently led by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Its history traces back to 1895, when it held the name People's Party, although its name was changed to the present one in 1903. During the Second Polish Republic, the Polish People's Party was represented by a number of parties that held its name. They were all supportive of agrarian policies, although they spanned from the left-wing to the centre-right on the political spectrum. It was reformed to the People's Party shortly after the Sanacja regime took power. It took part into the formation of Polish government-in-exile during the World War II, and after the war it was again reformed into the Polish People's Party, and soon after into the United People's Party. During the existence of the Polish People's Republic, it was seen as a satellite party of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party that promoted rural interests. After the fall of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civic Platform
The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a Centre-right politics, centre-right liberal conservative political party in Poland. Since 2021, it has been led by Donald Tusk, who previously led it from 2003 to 2014 and was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019. It was formed in 2001 by splinter factions from the Solidarity Electoral Action, the Freedom Union (Poland), Freedom Union and the Conservative People's Party (Poland), Conservative People's Party, and it later placed second in the 2001 Polish parliamentary election. It remained at the opposition until the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, 2007 Polish parliamentary opposition, when it overtook Law and Justice, won 209 seats, and Tusk was elected as prime minister of Poland, Prime Minister of Poland. Following the Smolensk air disaster in 2010, Bronisław Komorowski served as acting president of Poland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
