Confederation Liberty and Independence

Confederation Liberty and Independence Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość
Leaders	Janusz Korwin-Mikke Robert Winnicki Grzegorz Braun
Chairman	Jakub Kulesza
Vice-Chairman	Krzysztof Bosak
Founded	6 December 2018[1]
Headquarters	ul. Wiejska 12a, 00-490 Warsaw, Poland
Ideology	Majority: Right-wing populism[2][3] Economic liberalism Anti-communism Anti-immigration Anti-Islam Hard Euroscepticism[4] Internal factions: Ultranationalism Paleolibertarianism[5][6] Paleoconservatism[5][7] Monarchism Minarchism Political Catholicism Agrarianism Reactionism Christian nationalism Anarcho-capitalism
Political position	Right-wing[1] to far-right[8][9][10]
Member organisations	KORWiN National Movement Confederation of the Polish Crown Party of Drivers Union of Christian Families National League
Sejm	11 / 460
Senate	0 / 100
European Parliament	0 / 51
Regional assemblies	0 / 552
Website
konfederacja.net
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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]

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 6 March 2019, the political party "Federacja dla Rzeczypospolitej" (Federation for the republic) joined the coalition, but on 7 June the party abandoned the coalition together with Piotr Liroy Marzec. On 26 July it officially gained the status of political party and two weeks later, on 12 August, the "Fundacja Życie i Rodzina" (Life and Family Foundation) together with its leader, Kaja Godek, abandoned the party. 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 11 members in the Sejm.^[13] Most of the support the party received was 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 primary was Krzysztof Bosak, who became Confederate candidate for the presidential election.^[16] During the first round of the election Bosak received 1,317,380 votes or 6.78%, coming fourth among eleven candidates.

Platform[]

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

• Taxation^[17]
  • Eliminate the income tax
  • Make social insurance contributions optional
  • Reduce gasoline taxes
  • Reduce government spending
• Judicial^[18]
  • Hire more judges' assistants
  • Restore capital punishment^[19]
• Education^[20]
  • Create a school voucher program
  • Allow parents to opt-out their children from sex-education classes
  • Create a cultural voucher that can be used on arts or museums
• National Security^[21]
  • Allow licensed civilians to own firearms
  • Allow the use of nuclear energy
  • Oppose the European Union's refugee resettlement program
  • Oppose increases in immigration
  • Expect immigrants to integrate into Polish culture
• Health^[22]
  • Ban importation of garbage
  • Oppose the European Union's climate change rules
  • Protect human life from the moment of conception
• Business^[23]
  • Abolish penalties for street trade and raise the limits on unlicensed trade.
  • Raise the VAT exemption to PLN 400,000
  • Index the tax exempt amount to be approximately twelve times the minimum wage
  • Allow businesses to refuse services on moral grounds

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 significant change 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	Paleolibertarianism	Right-wing to far-right	Janusz Korwin-Mikke	5 / 460	0 / 100	0 / 51	0 / 552	6 December 2018
	National Movement	Ultranationalism National conservatism Social conservatism Militarism	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	Right-wing populism Anti-bureaucratism Anti-environmentalism	Right-wing	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
	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
	Polish Peasant Bloc	Agrarianism, conservatism	Right-wing	Wojciech Mojzesowicz	Informal organisation	6 December 2018

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[26]

Political parties who had members with individual agreements[]

Name		Ideology	Position	Leader*	Election	Notes
	Free and Solidary[28]	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[28]	Right-libertarianism Economic liberalism Hard Euroscepticism	Right-wing	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[28]	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[29][30] Anti-LGBT Religious fundamentalism Anti-science	Far-right	Kaja Godek (pl)	Lobbyist foundation, social activist group	28 January 2019[31]	9 August 2019[32]

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[]

• KORWiN (Poland)
• National Movement (Poland)
• Liroy
• Grzegorz Braun
• Kukiz'15
• United Right

References[]