Centre Agreement

Porozumienie Centrum (PC; English: Centre Agreement) was a Polish Christian democratic political party. The party rose in 1990. Its chairman was Jarosław Kaczyński. In its programme, the PC opposed socialism and was anti-communist. In 1997 PC joined the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) movement, but in 2001 Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński created a new party, called Law and Justice as the successor of the PC.

Centre Agreement Porozumienie Centrum
Leader	Adam Lipiński
Founder	Jarosław Kaczyński
Founded	1990
Dissolved	2002
Split from	Solidarity Citizens' Committee
Merged into	Law and Justice
Ideology	Christian democracy National conservatism Anti-communism
Political position	Centre-right
National affiliation	Center Civic Alliance Solidarity Electoral Action
Politics of Poland Political parties Elections

1993 Leaders

• Jarosław Kaczyński, Warszawa,
• Jan Parys, Warszawa,
• Tomasz Jackowski, Warszawa II,
• Lech Kaczyński, Nowy Sącz,
• Wojciech Ziembiński, Warszawa,
• Krzysztof Tchórzewski, Siedlce,
• Teresa Liszcz, Lublin,
• Edmund Krasowski, Gdańsk,
• Adam Glapiński, Olsztyn,
• Antoni Tokarczuk, Bydgoszcz,
• Adam Lipiński, Wrocław,
• Ludwik Dorn, Łódź.

Electoral results

Presidential

Election year	Candidate	1st round		2nd round
		# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall votes	% of overall vote
1990	Supported Lech Wałęsa	6,569,889	40.0 (#1)	10,622,696	74.3 (#1)
1995	Supported Jan Olszewski	1,225,453	6.9 (#4)
2000	Supported Marian Krzaklewski	2,739,621	15.5 (#3)

Sejm

Election year	# of votes	% of vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
1991	977,344	8.7	44 / 460	44
As part of the Center Civic Alliance coalition.
1993	609,973	4.4	0 / 460	44
1997	4,427,373	33.8	14 / 460	14
As part of the Solidarity Electoral Action coalition, which won 201 seats.

Senate

Election year	# of overall seats won	+/–
1991	9 / 100
1993	1 / 100	8
1997	3 / 100	2
As part of the Solidarity Electoral Action coalition, which won 51 seats.

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