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The Polish People's Party – Peasants' Agreement (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe – Porozumienie Ludowe, PSL-PL), commonly known simply as Peasants' Agreement (PL), was an agrarian and Christian-democratic political party in Poland.[1]
History
The party originated from the People's Agreement, an electoral list consisting mainly of Rural Solidarity (RS) and two dissident groups of the Polish People's Party (PSL), the so-called "Polish People's Party (Mikołajczyk)" and the "Polish People's Party (Wilanów)".
The People's Agreement participated in the 1991 parliamentary election, obtaining 5.5% of the vote, 28 seats in the Sejm and five in the Senate.[2] Subsequently, PSL-W's Henryk Bąk was elected Deputy Marshal of the Sejm and the group was part of the government led by Jan Olszewski, with RS' Gabriel Janowski as Minister of Agriculture.[3]
The PL was formally established in March 1992, under the leadership of Janowski, who retained his job as Minister of Agriculture also in the government led by Hanna Suchocka, which included also PL's Zygmunt Hortmanowicz as Minister of the Environment and Jerzy Kamiński as a minister without portfolio.[3] The dismissal of Janowski from the government in April 1993 led to the formal departure of the PL from the coalition, however during the no-confidence vote, only individual members of this party spoke against the government.
Due to several splits and internal disagreements, the 1993 parliamentary election saw the party's vote share fall to 2.4%. As it had failed to pass the 5% electoral threshold, it lost all its parliamentary representation. Following the election, the party disintegrated,[3] although it was part of Solidarity Electoral Action in the 1997 parliamentary election[4] and won three seats in the Sejm (including one for Janowski) and one in the Senate. In January 1999, during a congress, the party decided to merge into the Social Movement.
Election results
Sejm
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Government |
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1991 | 613,626 | 5.47 (#8) | 28 / 460 | – | PC–ZChN–PSL-PL–SLCh (1991–1992) |
UD–ZChN–PChD–KLD–PSL-PL–SLCh–PPPP (1992–1993) | |||||
1993 | 327,085 | 2.37 (#15) | 0 / 460 | ![]() | Extra-parliamentary |
1997 | 4,427,373 | 33.83 (#1) | 3 / 460 | ![]() | AWS-UW (1997–2000) |
AWS minority (2000–2001) | |||||
As part of the Solidarity Electoral Action coalition, which won 201 seats in total. |
Senate
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Government |
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1991 | 719,778 | 3.14 (#9) | 5 / 100 | – | PC–ZChN–PSL-PL–SLCh (1991–1992) |
UD–ZChN–PChD–KLD–PSL-PL–SLCh–PPPP (1992–1993) | |||||
1993 | 46,492 | 0.17 (#13) | 0 / 100 | ![]() | Extra-parliamentary |
1997 | 6,550,176 | 25.25 (#1) | 1 / 100 | ![]() | AWS-UW (1997–2000) |
AWS minority (2000–2001) | |||||
As part of the Solidarity Electoral Action coalition, which won 201 seats in total. |
References
- ^ Larry Diamond (1997) Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, Volume 1, JHU Press, p126
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp. 1511–1513 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ a b c Piotr Wróbel (2014) Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996, Routledge, p248
- ^ Aleksander Andrzej Szczerbiak (1989) The emergence and development of political parties in post-Communist Poland University of London
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*: Zbigniew Ajchler
**: Piotr Adamowicz et al.,
***: Marek Biernacki
****: not currently registered as a party
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