Peasants' Agreement
The Polish People's Party – Peasants' Agreement (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe – Porozumienie Ludowe, PSL-PL) was a Christian agrarian political party in Poland.[1]
Polish People's Party – Peasants' Agreement Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe – Porozumienie Ludowe | |
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Leader | Gabriel Janowski |
Founded | October 1991 |
Dissolved | 15 January 1999 |
Colours | Green |
History
The party was established in October 1991 by a merger of Rural Solidarity and Polish People's Party – Solidarity, the latter a splinter group from the former.[2] In the parliamentary elections later that year it received 5.5% of the vote, winning 28 seats in the Sejm and five in the Senate.[3] It joined the coalition governments headed by Jan Olszewski and Hanna Suchocka, with party leader Gabriel Janowski serving as Minister of Agriculture.[2]
In spring 1993 the party left the government in protest at a lack of support for agriculture. Due to several splits and internal disagreements, the September 1993 elections 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 elections the party disintegrated,[2] although it was part of Solidarity Electoral Action in the 1997 elections.[4] At a party congress on 15 January 1999 it was decided to merge into Ruch Społeczny.
Election results
Sejm
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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1991 | 613,626 | 5.47 (#8) | 28 / 460 |
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1993 | 327,085 | 2.37 (#15) | 0 / 460 |
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1997 | Part of Solidarity Electoral Action | 3 / 460 |
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Senate
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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1991 | 719,778 | 3.14 (#9) | 5 / 100 |
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1993 | 46,492 | 0.17 (#13) | 0 / 100 |
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1997 | Part of Solidarity Electoral Action | 1 / 100 |
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References
- Larry Diamond (1997) Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, Volume 1, JHU Press, p126
- Piotr Wróbel (2014) Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996, Routledge, p248
- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp1511–1513 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Aleksander Andrzej Szczerbiak (1989) The emergence and development of political parties in post-Communist Poland University of London