Law and Justice
Law and Justice ( PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński.
Law and Justice Prawo i Sprawiedliwość | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | PiS |
| Chairman | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Founders | Lech Kaczyński[1] Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Founded | 13 June 2001 |
| Merger of | |
| Split from | Solidarity Electoral Action |
| Headquarters | ul. Nowogrodzka 84/86, 02-018 Warsaw |
| Youth wing | Law and Justice Youth Forum |
| Membership |  45,000 (2021 est.)[3] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| National affiliation | United Right |
| European affiliation | European Conservatives and Reformists Party |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists |
| Colours | Blue White Red[4] |
| Seats in the Sejm | 163 / 460 |
| Seats in the Senate | 34 / 100 |
| Seats in the European Parliament | 23 / 52 |
| Regional assemblies | 254 / 552 |
| Voivodes | 0 / 16 |
| Voivodeship Marshals | 6 / 16 |
| Website | |
| www | |
It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct successor of the Centre Agreement after it split from the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS). It won the 2005 parliamentary and presidential elections. Lech became the president of Poland. It headed a parliamentary coalition with the League of Polish Families and Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland between 2005 and the 2007 election. In 2007 it was second. It was the parliamentary opposition until 2015. It won the presidency in the 2015 election, and later won a majority of seats in the parliamentary election. They kept the positions following the 2019 and 2020 election, but lost their majority following the 2023 Polish parliamentary election. The President Andrzej Duda is a PiS nominee.[5]
At the start it was a centrist Christian democratic party. Then it had more socially conservative views. It shifted to the right. Under Kaczyński's national-conservative and law and order agenda, it wanted economic interventionism.[6][7][8][9][10] It has close relations with the Catholic Church, although in 2011, the Catholic-nationalist faction split off to form United Poland.[11] During the 2010s, it also adopted right-wing populist positions. After regaining power, PiS gained popularity with transfer payments to families with children.[12]
It is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists,[13] and on national-level, it heads the United Right coalition. In 2024 it had 163 seats in the Sejm and 34 in the Senate.
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- ↑ "Historia PiS". e-sochaczew.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ↑ Paszkiewicz, Krystyna Anna (2004). Partie i koalicje polityczne III Rzeczypospolitej (in Polish) (Wyd. 3., uzup. i uaktualnione ed.). Wrocław: Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. pp. 118–119. ISBN 83-229-2493-3. OCLC 56578088.
- ↑ "Ponad 45 tysięcy członków PiS. Jest ich dwa razy więcej niż w 2015 roku". Polsat News (in Polish). 17 January 2021.
Choć PiS rządzi od kilku lat, wcale nie jest największą partią pod względem liczby członków. Na początku 2021 roku partia rządząca miała nieco ponad 45 tys. osób.
[Although PiS has been in power for several years, it is by no means the largest party in terms of membership. At the beginning of 2021, the ruling party had just over 45,000 members.] - ↑ Fijołek, Marcin (2012). "Republikańska symbolika w logotypie partii politycznej Prawo i Sprawiedliwość". Ekonomia I Nauki Humanistyczne (19): 9–17. doi:10.7862/rz.2012.einh.23.
- ↑ "Poland's struggling nationalists gear up for leadership battle". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
- ↑ "Premier o PiS. "Myśl socjalistyczna również jest dla nas ważna"". Wirtualna Polska (in Polish). July 21, 2019. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
- ↑ Turczyn, Andrzej (July 22, 2019). "Mateusz Morawiecki: robotnicza myśl socjalistyczna jest głęboko obecna w filozofii Prawa i Sprawiedliwości". Trybun Broni Palnej (in Polish). Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ↑ Szeląg, Wojciech (May 24, 2021). "Marek Goliszewski, prezes BCC: Polski Ład wystraszył nawet tych, którzy wspierają PiS". Interia (in Polish). Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ↑ Kołakowska, Agnieszka (October 9, 2019). "In defense of Poland's ruling party". Politico. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ↑ Orenstein, Mitchell (July 4, 2018). "Populism with socialist characteristics". The Jordan Times. Archived from the original on July 4, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
- ↑ Bale, Tim; Szczerbiak, Aleks (December 2006). "Why is there no Christian Democracy in Poland (and why does this matter)?". SEI Working Paper (91). Sussex European Institute.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Santora, Marc (14 October 2019). "In Poland, Nationalism With a Progressive Touch Wins Voters (Published 2019)". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ↑ Nordsieck, Wolfram (5 June 2019). Parties and Elections in Europe: Parliamentary Elections and Governments since 1945, European Parliament Elections, Political Orientation and History of Parties. BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN 9783732292509.