Polish Initiative
Polish Initiative Inicjatywa Polska | |
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| File:Polish Initiative Logo.png | |
| Leader | Barbara Nowacka |
| Founded | 20 February 2016 |
| Split from | Your Movement Democratic Left Alliance |
| Headquarters | Warsaw |
| Ideology | Social liberalism Feminism Pro-Europeanism Secularism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Civic Coalition |
| Colours | White Red |
| Sejm | 4 / 460
|
| Senate | 0 / 100
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| European Parliament | 0 / 52
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| Sejmiks | 2 / 552
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| Website | |
| http://ipl.org.pl/ | |
The Polish Initiative (Polish: Inicjatywa Polska) - is a Polish centre-left political party created in 2016 (registered as a political party in 2019). Its current leader is Barbara Nowacka. The party is a part of the Civic Coalition.
History
The association Polish Initiative was created on February 20, 2016,[1] by Barbara Nowacka, a former member of the Your Movement and the United Left electoral alliance for the 2015 parliamentary election. It was registered as a political party in 2019.
In 2018 the Initiative joined the Civic Coalition for the local elections. Two of its candidates were elected to the Voivodeship sejmiks.
The association joined the European Coalition for the 2019 European Parliament election.[2] However, because of being in the process of the registration as a political party, its members did not compete in the election.[3]
The party joined the Civic Coalition for the 2019 parliamentary election. Two of the party candidates, including its leader Barbara Nowacka and two candidates recommended by the party, were elected to the Sejm. The Coalition won 134 in total, losing to the ruling party Law and Justice.[4]
For 2020 Polish presidential election Polish Initiative supported the Civic Coalition's candidate Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska. Later, the Polish Initiative announced that it would as a party not take part in the election on 10 May, due change of electoral rules because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] However, after the election was moved it supported Rafał Trzaskowski, who became the Civic Coalition's candidate after the resignation of Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska. Trzaskowski later lost in the second round to the incumbent Andrzej Duda.[6]
Program
The party supports the decentralisation of power and increasing the power of local governments. It also supports European integration. On social issues, it is against any forms of discrimination, with an emphasis on gender discrimination. The party also advocates for the separation of church and state. [7] The party also supports increasing the funding of the Polish healthcare system.[8]
Electoral Performance
Sejm
| Election year | Leader | # of votes |
% of vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Govt? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Barbara Nowacka | 5,060,355 | 27.4 (#2) | 4 / 460
|
PiS | |
| As part of Civic Coalition, which won 134 seats in total. | ||||||
Presidential
| Election year | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # of overall votes | % of overall vote | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | ||
| 2020 | supported Rafał Trzaskowski | 5,917,340 | 30.5 (#2) | 10,018,263 | 48.9 (#2) |
Regional Assemblies
| Election year | Percentage of vote |
Number of overall seats won |
+/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 27.0 (#2) | 2 / 552
|
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| As part of Civic Coalition, which won 194 seats in total. | ||||
Board[9]
Leader
Secretary
- Tomasz Sybilski
Treasurer
- Katarzyna Osowiecka
Other members
- Anna Uzdowska-Gacek
- Barbara Starska
- Dariusz Joński
- Szymon Wiłnicki
- Adam Ostaszewski
- Mateusz Rambacher
- Arkadiusz Dzierżyński
References
- ^ "Polish Initiative - new left-wing association | Polska Agencja Prasowa SA". www.pap.pl.
- ^ "Koalicja Europejska rozszerza się o nowe ugrupowania, m.in. UED, IP i KOD". May 14, 2019.
- ^ "Nowackiej zabrakło wśród liderów opozycji. Dlaczego?". fakty.interia.pl.
- ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2019 r." sejmsenat2019.pkw.gov.pl.
- ^ wybory.gov.pl/prezydent20200628/
- ^ "Wybory Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w 2020 r." wybory.gov.pl.
- ^ "O nas – Inicjatywa Polska".
- ^ Naklicka, Tatiana (October 12, 2018). "Inicjatywa Polska". wiadomosci.wp.pl.
- ^ http://ipl.org.pl/?page_id=249
