Polish People's Party (, PSL) was a

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founded in autumn 1922, based amongst

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middle-class

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.Gawrecki 2000, 241. The chairman of the party was doctor

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. Other prominent party activists were pastor Józef Berger and journalist Jarosław Waleczko. In the 1929 parliamentary election, Buzek was elected member of parliament. He joined the Czechoslovak Social Democratic parliamentary group. The party published the weekly newspaper ''Ewangelik'' from

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(Czeski Cieszyn)Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany), and Karl Bosl.
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: Oldenbourg, 1979. p. 229 and ''Prawo ludu'' as a party newspaper.

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