Libertas Poland

Libertas Polska
Libertas Polska
Leader	Originally Daniel Pawłowiec; later Declan Ganley
Founded	~2006/7 (as Pawlowiec's Lewica i Demokraci); 2 February 2009. (announced as Libertas Polska); 24 February 2009 (renamed to Libertas Polska)
Dissolved	2014
Headquarters	Aleje Ujazdowskie 22/3, 00-478 Warsaw
Ideology	Anti-Lisbon Treaty; Euroscepticism
European affiliation	Libertas Party Limited
European Parliament group	none
Colours	blue, gold
Website
	referendumdlapolski.pl

Libertas Poland (Libertas Polska, LP) was a political party in Poland. It contended the 2009 European Parliament elections under a common banner with Libertas Party Limited, the organization founded by Declan Ganley.

Pawlowiec's Lewica i Demokraci

Before the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, three LPR then-members, Cyprian Gutkowski, Daniel Pawłowiec and Sebastian Jargut, registered a party called Lewica i Demokraci, (Left and Democrats).^[5] The party was a party-in-name-only designed to frustrate^[5] the party of the same name, which was forced to register itself as SLD+SdPl+PD+UP – Lewica i Demokraci (LiD) instead.^[5]

Declan Ganley visited^[8]^[9] Poland on Friday 9 January 2009^[10] to discuss terms for the formation of the Poland branch of Libertas with representatives from Forward Poland (NP), PSL Piast and Prawica Rzeczypospolitej (PR).^[10] Ganley insisted that the Poland Libertas party used the word "Libertas" in the title but the party politicians were concerned that the non-Polish name would deter voters.^[10] The name "Forward Poland – Libertas" (Naprzód Polsko – Libertas) was suggested as a compromise name^[10] should NP decide to ally with Libertas.

On 1 February 2009,^[11] Ganley spoke to the inaugural Warsaw meeting of the Referendum Committee (Komitetu Referendalnego), an organization advocating that referendums be held prior to treaty ratifications by Poland.^[11]^[12] The speech was filmed and placed on YouTube (prolog, part 1, part 2). The meeting attendance was estimated at 700^[12] or 500^[11] and attendees included^[11]^[13] Mirosław Orzechowski (LPR), Zdzisław Podkański (PSL), Krzysztof Filipek and Danuta Hojarska (once Samoobrona, now Party of Regions) and Antoni Tyszka (UPR), Konrad Bonisławski (head of All-Polish Youth) and Krzysztof Bosak (former LPR MP).

On 2 February 2009^[6]^[11] a press conference was given^[7] in which the head of the Referendum Committee, former LPR MP Daniel Pawłowiec, was named as head^[1]^[2]^[7] of Libertas Poland (Libertas Polska, LP), and the Referendum Committee offices at Aleje Ujazdowskie 22/3, 00-478 Warsaw were named as the headquarters of Libertas Poland.^[7]

Although the party had been announced, it did not exist under that name at that point: registering a political party in Poland is a lengthy process.^[5] Instead, Pawlowiec's Lewica i Demokraci was renamed to Libertas Polska, the new name being registered on 24 February 2009^[5]

Position

On 11 February 2009, Libertas Poland held a press conference concerning the emergency meeting of the European Council.^[14] In that press conference, Libertas Poland demanded that the Polish government should reduce VAT following the UK example,^[14] propose an EU joint energy policy,^[14] and reopen the labor markets of Germany and Austria to Polish workers.^[14]

Affiliates

Libertas attempted to get other parties to affiliate (run candidates under a common list) to it. Libertas's search for affiliates was assisted by Roman Giertych^[15] and Wojciech Wierzejski,^[16] with Wierzejski resigning from the leadership of LPR to devote his time to the unification of the Polish patriotic, nationalist, conservative and Christian right under a Libertas list.^[17]

Parties that did affiliate to Libertas

The parties that affiliated with Libertas Poland and the parent organization Libertas.eu are as follows:

Forward Poland and PSL Piast

Forward Poland (Naprzód Polsko, NP) originally rejected^[18] cooperation with Libertas because they felt that Libertas did not reflect their desire for a more independent Poland.^[18] PSL Piast (a.k.a. Stronnictwo "Piast") also initially rejected^[18]^[19] cooperation with Libertas for similar reasons to Forward Poland^[18] and because the party did not have a Polish name.^[19] Instead, the two parties planned to run their own combined list (Naprzód Polsko – Piast) in the 2009 elections.^[20]

But the two parties eventually decided to affiliate to Libertas^[21] and candidates from the two parties appeared on the Libertas lists.^[22] The decision to affiliate was not unanimously welcomed within the two parties.^[15]

There was a controversy involving allegations of forged signatures in constituency number 11^[23] and the Naprzód Polsko – Piast list did field candidates in that constituency.^[20]

Partia Regionów

Partia Regionów considered running under a Libertas list.^[19] Partia Regionów's president, Bolesław Borysiuk, negotiated cooperation with Libertas Polska^[24] and he announced in PR's inaugural Congress that PR's candidates were likely to run under a Libertas list alongside Libertas Polska,^[25] and this did in fact occur.^[22]

League of Polish Families

As of 9 March 2009, League of Polish Families (LPR) were still considering whether to run under a Libertas list or form their own, either by themselves or with UPR, or Prawica Rzeczypospolitej.^[26] But by 19 March, Ganley was distancing Libertas from LPR.^[27] Nevertheless, Libertas and LPR were still in ongoing discussions on Friday 27 March 2009^[28] about running under a common list. By 21 April 2009, LPR had agreed to affiliate to Libertas^[21] and their candidates did run under the Libertas list^[22]^[29] instead of their own list^[30] in the 2009 European Parliament elections.

Organizacja Narodu Polskiego – Liga Polska

Organizacja Narodu Polskiego – Liga Polska affiliated to Libertas.^[31]^[32]^[33]

Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Narodowe

Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Narodowe (ZChN) affiliated to Libertas.^[31]^[32]^[34]

Parties that did not affiliate to Libertas

The parties that considered affiliating with Libertas Poland and the parent organization Libertas.eu, but did not, are as follows:

Prawica Rzeczypospolitej

Prawica Rzeczypospolitej considered Libertas to have Eurofederalist aspects and rejected Libertas accordingly.^[35] No Prawica Rzeczypospolitej candidates appeared on the Libertas list in the 2009 European Parliament elections.^[22]

Law and Justice

Law and Justice (PiS) personnel^[3] were mentioned by Pawłowiec as possible Libertas candidates, although no names were given.^[3] Libertas tried to get PiS to affiliate to it^[36] but it did not do so,^[37] and instead ran a full list of its own,^[38] although one of its members (Slawomir Ligecki^[39]) did defect to Libertas.

Personnel

Person	Position
Declan Ganley	President^[3]^[4]
Daniel Pawłowiec	Originally President,^[14] later vice-president.^[3]^[4] Former LPR MP
Artur Zawisza	Vice-president^[14] and former PR MP

TVP controversy

On 20 March 2009, journalist Hanna Lis refused to do a TVP interview with Declan Ganley.^[40] Controversy promptly arose revolving around LPR's Roman Giertych^[40] and whether LPR were encouraging coverage of Libertas on TVP^[40] via Piotr Farfał the President of TVP^[41] and a member of LPR.^[40] Hanna Lis,^[42] Piotr Kraśko,^[42] and Jarosław Kulczycki,^[42] the three presenters of a nightly news program, took sick leave in protest, forcing the news to be presented by Marcin Szczepański.^[42]

European Parliament elections, 2009

Libertas Poland started work on/before 20 March 2009 on collecting sufficient signatures to field candidates,^[3]^[4] although the number and names of those candidates was not specified.^[3]^[4] By 2 May 2008, a Libertas Election Committee (Komitet Wyborczy Libertas) had been formed and its list consisted of 130^[31] candidates, later falling to 128.^[22] The breakdown was as follows:^[31]

Party/Movement of which candidates were current/former members	Acronym	Number of candidates on Libertas list	Number of first-placed candidates on Libertas list
Law and Justice	PiS	1	0
Organizacja Narodu Polskiego - Liga Polska	?	1	0
Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Narodowe	ZChN	1	0
Radio Maryja	n/a	2	2
Libertas Polska	LP	3	2
Forward Poland	NP	6	2
Partia Regionów	PR	6	1
Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe "Piast"	PSL Piast	13	1
Liga Polskich Rodzin	LPR	40	2
other	n/a	57	3

Results

References

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Libertas Poland

Pawlowiec's Lewica i Demokraci

Position

Affiliates

Parties that did affiliate to Libertas

Parties that did not affiliate to Libertas

Personnel

TVP controversy

European Parliament elections, 2009

Results

See also

References

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