Conservative Party (Poland)

Conservative Party Partia Konserwatywna (Polish)
Leader	Aleksander Hall
Founded	6 December 1992
Dissolved	12 January 1997
Preceded by	Forum of the Democratic Right Republican Coalition Liberal Democratic Congress[a][1]
Succeeded by	Conservative Coalition (minority, 1994) Conservative People's Party (majority, 1997)
Youth wing	Forum Młodych Konserwatystów
Ideology	Conservative liberalism Economic liberalism
Political position	Center
National affiliation	Catholic Electoral Committee "Fatherland" (1993) November 11th Agreement (1994-1995) Solidarity Electoral Action (1996-1997)
Politics of Poland Political parties Elections

The Conservative Party (Polish: Partia Konserwatywna, PK) was a conservative liberal^[2] political party functioning between 1992 and 1997.

History

The party was created on 6 December 1992 and formally registered on 19 February 1993. It was formed by members of the Forum of the Democratic Right, which functioned within the Democratic Union (Poland), activists of the Republican Coalition and Upper Silesian-Dąbrowa Basin Conservative-Liberal Group, a faction of the Liberal Democratic Congress.^[1] In parliament, its representatives (8 posełs, 6 from UD, 2 from KLD) joined the Polish Convention.

In the 1993 Polish parliamentary election, the Conservative Party started as part of the Catholic Electoral Committee "Fatherland", which gained 878,445 (6,37%), and did not cross the 8% electoral threshold.

In the Spring of 1993, the party joined the November 11th Agreement. In February 1994, a group of activists left the party, creating the Conservative Coalition. A year later in the presidential elections, the Conservative Party backed the candidacy of Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz. In 1996, it signed an agreement to work with the Freedom Union, but soon later joined the Solidarity Electoral Action.

In January 1997, the Conservative Party entered the Conservative People's Party, and dissolved itself.

References

1. Borowik, Bogdan (2011). Partie Konserwatywne w Polsce 1989–2001. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej. p. 124. ISBN 9788322731581.
2. Krystyna Paszkiewicz (red.) (2004). Partie i koalicje polityczne III Rzeczypospolitej. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. p. 65. ISBN 8322924933.

1. Upper Silesian-Dąbrowa Basin Conservative-Liberal Group, a faction of the Liberal Democratic Congress