The PSL-UED parliamentary coalition changed its name to PSL-Polish Coalition on 4 July 2019, and was joined by former members of PO (Marek Biernacki and Jacek Tomczak) and Modern (Radosław Lubczyk).[14] Two days later, the PSL general council announced that an alliance with PO is a coalition priority. Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed UED cooperation.[15]
The Silesians Together party and the Jura-Silesian Association European Home joined the coalition on 5 August 2019.[20] Three days later (after losing several MPs), Kukiz'15 joined the coalition.[21] One member each from Civic Platform and the League of Polish Families (LPR) were also on the PSL list, despite those parties not belonging to the coalition.[22][failed verification]
In the 2019 parliamentary election, the PSL received 8.6 percent of the vote; an improvement compared to the 2015 parliamentary election. The coalition gained 30 seats in the Sejm: 20 from the PSL, six from Kukiz'15, one from the UED, and three independents. It also gained three senators: two from the PSL and one from the UED.
On 26 November 2020, the General Council of PSL ended coalition with Kukiz'15, after 5 of 6 MPs of K'15 voted in favour of government's veto on European budget.[24] Parliamentary club has its changed its title to Polish Coalition - PSL, UED, Conservatives.
5 politicians of Kukiz'15 with Paweł Kukiz has formed their own group in parliament, Agnieszka Ścigaj (who voted as PSL in case of veto) became independent MP. She joined PSL parliamentary group, but later she resigned from this political group and became unaffiliated MP.
In 2021 Polish Coalition started unofficial cooperation with Polish Affairs and Agreement,[25] and decided to talk with Poland 2050 and more conservative local activists of Civic Platform about possibilities of creating centre to centre-right political faction in Poland.
On 2 May 2022 Ireneusz Raś (a conservative dissident from Civic Platform) and independent MPs of Polish Coalition (former Civic Platform and Modern members) created conservative, Christian democratic Centre for Poland.[26]
On 28 February Polish Coalition signed Senate Pact agreement with other opposition parties.[27]
↑ Łuczyn, Ryszard (4 December 2021). "SL i AgroUnia. Kto może wygrać z PiS na wsi?". Polityka (in Polish). Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz w ostatnich latach próbował nadać swojej partii nową twarz. Gdy w 2015 r. po raz pierwszy obejmował funkcję przewodniczącego partii, podkreślał, że „ludowy nie znaczy wiejski, tylko powszechny, i takie będzie Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe". Próbował zdobywać wyborców w miastach, kierując formację w stronę liberalizmu gospodarczego.[Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has tried to give his party a new face in recent years.When he took over as party chairman for the first time in 2015, he stressed that ‘people's does not mean agrarian, it means universal, and that is what the Polish People's Party will be’. He tried to win voters in the cities by steering the formation towards economic liberalism.]
↑ Bilewicz, Aleksandra (November 2023). "„Złoty środek, którym zazwyczaj chodzi życie". O potrzebie obecności agraryzmu w Polsce". Praktyka Teoretyczna (in Polish): 108–109. doi:10.19195/prt.2023.2.4. Odwołanie do agraryzmu nie pojawia się we współczesnym programie partii. Obecne porozumienie przedwyborcze PSL i Polski 2050 zwane Trzecią Drogą (co być może stanowi nawiązanie do tradycji ludowcowej) w znikomym stopniu komunikuje swoje poglądy na sprawy wiejskie, choć w programie przedwyborczym koalicji wysunięto postulat ochrony małych i średnich gospodarstw. Można więc wysnuć wniosek, iż PSL współcześnie w zasadzie nie jest kontynuatorem tradycji agrarystycznych i nie są one w nim żywe. PSL zapracowała sobie na wizerunek partii raczej bezideowej.[Reference to agrarianism does not appear in the party's contemporary programme. The current pre-election agreement of the PSL and Poland 2050, called the Third Way (which is perhaps a reference to the People's Party tradition), hardly communicates its views on rural affairs, although the coalition's pre-election programme put forward a postulate for the protection of small and medium-sized farms. Thus, one can conclude that the PSL today is basically not a continuation of agrarian traditions and they are not alive in it. The PSL has earned itself the image of a rather non-ideological party.]
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