Political parties in Poland lists political parties in Poland. Poland has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
The general rule on naming applies. That means: the parties are named in the English translation and the original native name is placed on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form. Rationale and specifics: See: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English).
The transition from a mono-party Communist regime to democracy and pluralism resulted in new political parties mushrooming in the early 1990s. After the first free parliamentary elections in 1991 seats in the Sejm were divided among more than a dozen different parties. The threshold of minimum 5% of votes for parties and 8% of votes for electoral coalitions eliminated a big number of minor parties from winning their seats in later elections. Throughout the 1990s the left side of the political scene was, and still is, dominated by the Communists turned Social Democrats. The right, however, was deeply divided, and the right-wing politicians, most of whom were associated with the Solidarity trade union, were unable to create a single bloc which could act as a lasting counterweight for the left-wing monolith. Instead, right-wing parties kept merging, splitting and renaming. Today the political scene seems to have become more balanced. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that the general public disapproval of politics and politicians as a whole has resulted in all major parties excluding the very word "party" from their names, replacing it with words less associated with politics, such as "union", "platform", "league" or "alliance".
Alphabetical list of all political parties and organizations (after 1989)
This the list of political organizations registered in Poland as political parties, societies, foundations, trade unions, electoral committees, electoral alliances and also informal groups:
Dariusz Cecuda, Leksykon Opozycji Politycznej 1976-1989, BIS Trust, Warszawa 1989
Małgorzata Dehnel-Szyc, Jadwiga Stachura, Gry polityczne. Orientacje na dziś, Oficyna Wydawnicza Volument, Warszawa 1991
Piotr Frączak (e.d), Gorączka czasu przełomu. Dokumenty ugrupowań radykalnych 1989-1990, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Warszawa 1984
Inka Słodkowska (ed.), Programy partii i ugrupowań parlamentarnych 1989-1991' vol.1-2, Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa 1995
After the political poverty of its Communist past, Poland exploded in a rich exuberance of politicalparties, which ranged across the full political spectrum, from the rabidly xenophobic nationalism of the Polish National Front (whose leader, Janusz Bryczkowski, invited Russian extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky to Poland in 1994) to the socialist party, Union of Labor (UP).
The local elections of 1994, however, indicated that Poland was coalescing into three basic political orientations, which are served by shifting coalitions of parties.
These parties generally favored a major role for the Catholic Church, and tended to draw their support from Poland's rural sectors; in 1994, they did best in the eastern districts.
The Polish United WorkersÂ’ Party, also known as the CommunistParty, was the leading political force in Poland from 1948 until 1989, when it yielded power to a Solidarity-led government.
In early 1990 the CommunistParty reestablished itself as the new Social-Democracy of the Polish Republic (SdRP).
They included the Civic Platform, a pro-business party formed by Solidarity defectors; the right-wing, anticorruption Law and Justice Party; Self Defense of the Polish Republic, a populist agrarianparty; and the nationalist League of Polish Families.
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