Confederation Liberty and Independence

Confederation Liberty and Independence (Polish: Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość), frequently shortened to just Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja), is a far-right political party and electoral list in Poland established initially as a coalition in 2018 between KORWiN and the National Movement party.[11]

Confederation Liberty and Independence

Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość
Leaders
ChairmanJakub Kulesza
Vice-ChairmanKrzysztof Bosak
FoundedDecember 6, 2018[1]
Headquartersul. Wiejska 12a, 00-490 Warsaw, Poland
IdeologyMajority:
Libertarian conservatism
Economic liberalism
Right-wing populism[2][3]
Anti-communism
Anti-immigration
Anti-Islam
Hard Euroscepticism[4]
Internal factions:
 • Ultranationalism
 • Paleolibertarianism[5][6]
 • Paleoconservatism[5][7]
 • Monarchism
 • Minarchism
 • Political Catholicism
 • Agrarianism
 • Reactionism
 • Anarcho-capitalism[8]
 • Christian nationalism
Political positionRight-wing[1] to far-right[9][10]
Member organisations
Sejm
11 / 460
Senate
0 / 100
European Parliament
0 / 51
Regional assemblies
0 / 552
Website
konfederacja.net

History

In the beginning the coalition was known as the Pro-Polish Coalition and it was formed for the European Parliament election. In January 2019, Grzegorz Braun, Piotr Liroy Marzec and Kaja Godek joined the coalition, and on 27 February 2019, the official name was announced to be Konfederacja KORWiN Braun Liroy Narodowcy.[12] On the 6th of March 2019, the political party "Federacja dla Rzeczypospolitej" (Federation for the republic) joined the coalition, but on the 7th of June the party abandoned the coalition together with Piotr Liroy Marzec. On the 26th of July it officially gained the status of political party and two weeks later, on the 12th of August, the "Fundacja Życie i Rodzina" (Life and Family Foundation) together with its leader, Kaja Godek, abandoned the party, soon after on the following day, the party "Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańskich Rodzin" (Union of Christian Families) joined Confederation.

Confederation failed to obtain any seats in the European elections, gaining only 4.55% of the votes, below the threshold of 5%, although the initial results of exit polls gave them seats in the European Parliament.

In the national elections held on 13 October 2019, Confederation obtained 6.81% of the votes and introduced 11 MP to the Sejm.[13] Most of its support the party received in southeast and northern parts of Poland.[14]

Ahead of the 2020 Polish presidential election, it was announced that the party would host an American-style presidential primary.[15]

The winner of the presidential primaries was Krzysztof Bosak, thus becoming the Confederate candidate for the presidential election 2020.[16] During the first round of the election Bosak received 1,317,380 votes which was 6.78%, coming fourth among eleven candidates.

Platform
Election poster for Paweł Skutecki

Confederation's platform includes the following promises, as well as others:

Support

During 2019 Polish parliamentary election around 20% of all young voters aged under-30 supported the grouping, about two-thirds of its voters were male and more than three-fifths lived in smaller towns and rural areas. This has been highlighted as a strong improvement from previous right-wing alliances involving Korwin-Mikke where the base of support was almost exclusively young males.[24]

Composition

Current Political Parties
Name Ideology Position Leader MPs Senators MEPs Sejmiks Entry
KORWiN Conservative liberalism, Laissez-faire Right-wing Janusz Korwin-Mikke
5 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 51
0 / 552
 6 December 2018
National Movement Polish nationalism, National Catholicism Far-right Robert Winnicki
5 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 51
0 / 552
 6 December 2018
Confederation of the Polish Crown Monarchism, Traditionalism Far-right Grzegorz Braun
1 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 51
0 / 552
 7 January 2019
Party of Drivers Populism, Anti-bureaucratism, Anti-environmentalism Right-wing populist Lech Kędzierski
0 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 51
0 / 552
 10 April 2019
Union of Christian Families Social conservatism, Political Catholicism, Religious fundamentalism Far-right Bogusław Rogalski
0 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 51
0 / 552
 13 August 2019
National League National democracy, Polish nationalism Far-right Zbigniew Lipiński
0 / 460
0 / 100
0 / 51
0 / 552
 5 September 2019

Current organisations and movements
Name Ideology Position Leader Type Entry
General Polish Association for Information about Vaccines STOP NOP Anti-vaccine movement Far-right Paweł Skutecki Single-issue lobbyist association 12 August 2019
Agrarian-Consumer Confederation Agrarianism, free-market economy Right-wing Krzysztof Tołwiński Informal organisation 29 November 2019
All-Polish Youth Catholic nationalist, ultra-nationalism, anti-LGBT Far-right Ziemowit Przebitkowski Political youth movement 6 December 2018
Conservative-Monarchist Club Traditionalist conservatism, monarchist, Catholic nationalist, counter-revolutionary, integralist conservative, anti-democratic Far-right Adam Wielomski Philosophical and journalistic organisation 7 January 2019

Former political parties
Name Ideology Position Leader Entry Exit
Federation for the Republic of Poland
(pl)		 Social conservatism, Political Catholicism, Economic liberalism Far-right Marek Jakubiak 6 March 2019[25] 28 June 2019[26]
Efficient
(pl)		 Direct-democracy[27] Hard euroscepticism][27] Centre-right Piotr "Liroy" Marzec 1 September 2018 28 June 2019[28]

Political parties who had members with individual agreements
Name Ideology Position Leader* Election Notes
Free and Solidary[29] Solidarism, Anti-communism, Russophilia Right-wing to far-right Kornel Morawiecki 2019 Polish parliamentary election 4 party members were candidates for Piotr Liroy-Marzec's Efficient political party electoral committee in Constituency № 35 (Olsztyn) whilst the rest of the party, including its entire parliamentary club, were on Law and Justice's electoral lists.
Congress of the New Right[30] Right-libertarianism, Economic liberalism, Hard Euroscepticism Right-wing populist Stanisław Żółtek 2019 Polish parliamentary election Used Federation for the Republic of Poland's electoral lists, which in turn were in agreement with the Right Wing of the Republic, and fielded candidates in the Kraków constituencies.
League of Polish Families[31] Political Catholicism Centre-right to far-right Witold Bałażak 2019 Polish parliamentary election Despite being loosely affiliated with the Polish Coalition, they fielded only 1 candidate in Kraków from their electoral lists, whereas 2 other candidates used Confederation's electoral lists.
National Unity
pl		 Political Catholicism, Religious fundamentalism, Paleoconservatism Far-right Gabriel Janowski 2019 Polish parliamentary election Vice-chair of the party Paweł Połanecki was a candidate for Piotr Liroy-Marzec's Efficient political party electoral committee in the Kielce constituency, as no.2 on the list behind Piotr Liroy-Marzec himself.
*At the time in question

Former organisations and movements
Name Ideology Position Leader Type Entry Exit
Life and Family Foundation Anti-abortion movement, Anti-LGBT, Religious fundamentalism, Anti-science Far-right Kaja Godek (pl) Lobbyist foundation, social activist group 28 January 2019[32] 9 August 2019[33]

Results

European Parliament
Election Year Votes % Rank Seats
2019 621,188 4.55 4th
0 / 52

Sejm
Election year Votes % Rank Seats
2019 1,256,953 6.81 5th
11 / 460

Senate
Election year Votes % Rank Seats
2019 144,124 0.79 6th
0 / 100

Presidential
Election year Candidate 1st round 2nd round
# of overall votes % of overall vote # of overall votes % of overall vote
2020 Krzysztof Bosak 1,317,380 6.78 (#4)

Internal
Year Election type Affiliation Final Candidate Number of initial candidates Number of rounds Final round
Electoral vote Percentage
2019–20 American-style presidential primary RN Bosak 9 1x 16 regional preliminaries
7x convention elimination		 163 51.9%
KORWiN
KKP		 Braun 146 46.5%

See also

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