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The Polish People's Union (Polish : Polskie Zjednoczenie Ludowe, PZL) was a political party in Poland.
The party was established in Congress Poland in 1917 as the "United Party", but was renamed PZL in 1918 after several members defected to the Polish People's Party "Piast". [1] The party contested the January 1919 elections to elect the first Sejm of the Second Polish Republic. It received 3.8% of the vote, winning 35 seats. [2]
However, it split in August 1919, with some members joining Narodowe Zjednoczenie Ludowe and others joining Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie". [3]
The Democratic Left Alliance was a social-democratic political party in Poland. It was formed on 9 July 1991 as an electoral alliance of centre-left parties, and became a single party on 15 April 1999. It was the major coalition party in Poland between 1993 and 1997, and between 2001 and 2005, with four Prime ministers coming from the party: Józef Oleksy, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Leszek Miller and Marek Belka. It then faded into opposition, overshadowed by the rise of Civic Platform and Law and Justice.
The Polish People's Party is an agrarian political party in Poland. It is currently led by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
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Polish People's Party Nowe Wyzwolenie also known as the Polish Peasant Party Nowe Wyzwolenie was a political party founded in Warsaw on 9 June 1946 in Poland soon after the defeat of Germany in World War II. PSL "Nowe Wyzwolenie" formed a few months before the USSR took political control over the country, and was a Polish Worker's Party (PPR) inspired split from the Polish People's Party (PSL) opposed to the Deputy prime minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk.
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The Polish People's Party – Peasants' Agreement, commonly known simply as Peasants' Agreement (PL), was an agrarian and Christian-democratic political party in Poland.
Ewa Slawomira Kierzkowska is a Polish politician who served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from 18 June 2009 to 7 November 2011. She is a member of the Polish People's Party (PSL). Her father, Jan Szczepaniak, served in the Sejm from 1991 to 1997. Born in Brodnica, Kierzkowska joined the United People's Party in 1982, then joined the PSL after the former was dissolved in 1989.
The Polish People's Party of Wilno Land was a left-wing political party in the Republic of Central Lithuania. Following the 1922 general elections, it held 13 seats in the Sejm of Central Lithuania. Its ideology consisted of the agrarianism and agrarian socialism, and it supported the authonomy of Central Lithuania from Poland. Its leader was Bronisław Krzyżanowski.
Witold Abramowicz was a politician and jurist. In 1919, he served as the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, and from 12 October 1920 to 16 January 1921, he was the chairperson of the Provisional Governing Commission, an executive government of the Republic of Central Lithuania. In 1922, he was the leader of the Democratic Party, which he represented in the Sejm of Central Lithuania from 1 February to 1 March 1922. From 11 March 1928 to 10 July 1935, he represented the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government for Vilnius electoral district, in the Senate of Poland.
