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Polish People's Party

The Polish People's Party (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, PSL) is an agrarian political party in Poland.[3] It is currently led by Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

Polish People's Party
Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe
LeaderWładysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
Founded1895 (original form)
1990 (current form)
Merger of
Preceded byUnited People's Party
Headquartersul. Kopernika 36/40, 00-924 Warsaw
Membership (2016)100 320[1]
Ideology
Political positionCentre to centre-right
National affiliationPolish Coalition
Senate Pact 2023 (for 2023 Senate election)
Third Way
European affiliationEuropean People's Party
European Parliament groupEuropean People's Party
Colours
  •   Aquamarine[a]
  •   Green[b]
Anthem"Rota"
Sejm
28 / 460
[2]
Senate
2 / 100
European Parliament
3 / 52
Regional assemblies
68 / 552
Website
www.psl.pl

Its history traces back to 1895, when it held the name People's Party, although its name was changed to the present one in 1903. During the Second Polish Republic, the Polish People's Party was represented by a number of parties that held its name. They were all supportive of agrarian policies, although they spanned from the left-wing to the centre-right on the political spectrum. It was reformed to the People's Party shortly after the Sanacja regime took power. It took part into the formation of Polish government-in-exile during the World War II, and after the war it was again reformed into the Polish People's Party, and soon after into the United People's Party. During the existence of the Polish People's Republic, it was seen as a satellite party of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party that promoted rural interests. After the fall of communism, it participated in the governments led by the Democratic Left Alliance. In the mid-2000s, it began shifting more to the centre-right and it adopted more conservative policies. It entered in the government again following the 2007 parliamentary election, and since 2015 it has served in the opposition.

Today, it is positioned in the centre[4] and leans towards the centre-right,[5][6][7] and besides holding agrarian and conservative views,[8][9][10] it is also Christian-democratic,[11][12][13] and supports Poland's membership in the European Union.[14] It currently has 19 seats in the Sejm and two seats in the Senate. On national level, it heads the Polish Coalition and on European level, it is a part of the European People's Party.

History edit

Before 1945 edit

The party's name traces its tradition to an agrarian party in Austro-Hungarian-controlled Galician Poland, which sent MPs to the parliament in Vienna.[15] The party was formed in 1895 in the Polish town of Rzeszow under the name Stronnictwo Ludowe (People's Party). The party changed its name in 1903 to what it's known as now. The party was led by Wincenty Witos and was quite successful, seating representatives in the Galician parliament before the turn of the 19th century. In the Second Polish Republic there were a few parties named PSL (Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie", Polish People's Party "Piast", Polish People's Party "Left" and others) until they were removed by the Sanacja regime (see also People's Party).[15]

During this time, there were two parties using the term "Polish People's Party", namely Polish People's Party "Piast" and Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie" (which were merged into People's Party with Stronnictwo Chłopskie). During World War II, PSL took part in forming the Polish government in exile.[15]

Under the communist regime edit

 
Support for the PSL by region in 2007 Polish parliamentary election

In June 1945 after the war Stanisław Mikołajczyk, a PSL leader who had been Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile, returned to communist-dominated Poland, where he joined the provisional government and rebuilt PSL. The party hoped to win the Yalta Conference-mandated elections and help establish a parliamentary system in Poland. However, the party soon found itself targeted with intimidation, arrests and violence by the communist secret police.[16]

The communists also formed a rival ersatz 'Peasants' party' controlled by them, in order to confuse voters. The January 1947 parliamentary election was heavily rigged, with the communist-controlled bloc claiming to have won 80 percent of the vote. The PSL were said to have won just 10 percent of the vote, but many neutral observers believe the PSL would have won the election had it been conducted fairly.[15]

Mikołajczyk was soon compelled to flee Poland for his life in October 1947. The communists then forced the remains of Mikołajczyk's PSL to unite with the pro-communist People's Party to form the United People's Party. The ZSL was a governing partner in the ruling coalition.[17]

Post-communist period (1990–2003) edit

Around the time of the fall of communism several PSLs were recreated, including Porozumienie Ludowe, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe-Odrodzenie, and Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (Wilanów faction). In 1989 most merged into one party and took part in forming the first postwar noncommunist government in Poland with the Solidarity grouping, and in 1990 changed its name to PSL.[18][19]

It remained on the left of Polish politics in the 1990s, entering into coalitions with the postcommunist Democratic Left Alliance.[20][21][22] In the 2001 parliamentary elections, PSL received 9% of votes and formed a coalition with the Democratic Left Alliance, an alliance which later broke down. Since then, PSL has moved towards more centrist and conservative policies.

Opposition years (2003–2007) edit

The party ran in the 2004 European Parliament election as part of the European People's Party (EPP) and received 6% of the vote, giving it four of 54 Polish seats in the European Parliament.[20][23] In the 2005 general election, the party received 7% of votes, giving it 25 seats in the Sejm and two in the Senate. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party placed fourth, with 8.93% of the vote and 31 out of 460 seats, and entered into a governing coalition with the victor, the centre-right conservative Civic Platform.[24] In European parliament elections PSL received 7.01% of votes in 2009.[25] In the 2011 national parliamentary election, Polish People's Party received 8.36% votes which gave them 28 seats in the Sejm and two mandates in the Senate.[26]

Coalition government (2007–2015) edit

After the parliamentary elections in 2007, PSL won 8.91% of the popular vote and 31 seats,[27] it joined the government coalition led by Civic Platform. Waldemar Pawlak was appointed deputy prime minister, Marek Sawicki was appointed as agriculture minister, and Jolanta Fedak was appointed as labor minister. In the 2009 European Parliament election, it won 3 seats.[28] After the Smolensk air disaster, presidential elections were held in which Pawlak placed fifth, winning 1.75% of the vote. In the second round they didn't state their support for anyone.[29]

In the 2010 local government elections, PSL obtained 16.3% of the votes in the elections to voivodship assemblies, in which it received 93 seats. In the Świętokrzyskie sejmik, the party received the most seats. In all parliamentary assemblies, PSL found itself in ruling coalitions with the PO, in four voivodeships receiving the positions of marshals. In the elections to poviat councils, the PSL committee obtained 15.88%, and in the elections to municipal councils 11% of the votes. The PSL won the largest number of village leaders (428) and mayors in the country, and in Zgierz, the party's candidate won the presidential election. In 2011, a PiS senator defected to PSL.[30]

In the parliamentary elections of 2011, PSL obtained 8.36% of votes on the list of candidates for the Sejm.[31] The party also won two seats in the Senate.[32] Eugeniusz Grzeszczak became the deputy speaker of the Sejm on behalf of the PSL.[33] PSL again became a partner of the PO in the government coalition. On December 7, 2011, as a result of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, Arkadiusz Bratkowski, a PSL politician, assumed a mandate in the European Parliament.[34]

In July 2012, Stanisław Kalemba replaced Marek Sawicki as the minister of agriculture and rural development. Pawlak was defeated during the presidential election by Janusz Piechociński.[35] Two days later, Waldemar Pawlak announced his resignation as deputy prime minister and minister of economy. He was dismissed from both functions on November 27. On December 6, both these offices were taken over by Janusz Piechociński.

In January 2014, PSL decided to establish cooperation with SKL and Samoobrona, but SKL already in February announced that Jarosław Gowin joined Poland Together, and the PSL talks about a joint election campaign with Samoobrona did not end with an agreement. In March, MP Andrzej Dąbrowski left PSL.[36] The party's candidate in the 2015 presidential election was the marshal of the Świętokrzyskie Province, party vice president Adam Jarubas.[37] He placed 6th, obtaining 238,761 votes.[38] Before the second round, PSL was involved in the campaign of the then-incumbent President Bronisław Komorowski.[39]

Modern period (2015–present) edit

At the 2015 parliamentary election, the PSL dropped to 5.13 percent of the vote, just barely over the 5 percent threshold. With 16 seats, it was the smallest of the five factions in the Sejm.[40]

Since then PSL has lost even more support to PiS during the 2018 Polish local elections when they lost 87 seats and dropped to 12.07% unlike the 23.9% they got at the last local elections. After this, the party became a junior partner in coalition with the Civic Coalition and SLD.

In 2019 European election, PSL won 3 seats as a part of the European Coalition.[41]

For parliamentary elections in the same year, PSL decided to create a centrist and Christian-democratic coalition called the Polish Coalition.[42] The Polish Coalition, apart from PSL, consisted of Kukiz'15, Union of European Democrats and other liberal, catholic and regionalist organisations.[43][44][45] The coalition managed to get 30 Sejm members elected, 20 of whom were members of PSL.

In November 2020, PSL decided to end coalition with Kukiz'15 due to differences on negotiations on EU budget.[46]

Ideology edit

The Polish People's Party adhered to principles of social democracy and agrarian socialism during the 1990s, although it has moved towards Christian democracy in the 2000s.[47][48][49] It was positioned on the left-wing on the political spectrum during that period.[50]

The party's platform is strongly based on agrarianism.[51] On social and ethical issues, PSL is attached to more social conservative values,[citation needed] as it opposes abortion (although it is against its criminalization, defending the current abortion law in Poland[52]), legalisation of same-sex marriage, euthanasia, death penalty,[53] and soft drug decriminalisation.[54] The party is in favour of maintaining religion lessons in public education.[53] In 2019, the party adopted (as part of an agreement with Kukiz'15) in the party's platform direct democracy's postulates, including introducing single-member districts, electronic voting and obligatory referendums.[55]

Moreover, during the leadership of Kosiniak-Kamysz, PSL has visibly started leaning towards economic liberalism in order to gain voters in bigger cities.[56] Kosiniak-Kamysz himself has described party's ideology as "moderately centrist"[57][58] and Christian democratic.[59]

Election results edit

Support edit

The Party's traditional support base consisted of farmers, peasants and rural voters. Voters are generally more social conservative than voters of Civic Platform.[60] Its main competitor in rural areas is the national conservative Law and Justice (PiS).[61]

In the 2010s the party started to lose support between rural voters (especially in southeast of Poland, e.g. Subcarpathian Voivodeship). In 2019 election PSL gained surprisingly significant support in cities and won mandates (e. g. in Warsaw and Wrocław).[62]

Sejm edit

Election year Leader # of
votes
% of
vote
# of
overall seats won
+/– Government
1991 Waldemar Pawlak 972,952 8.7 (#5)
48 / 460
New Government Support
1993 2,124,367 15.4 (#2)
132 / 460
  84 Coalition
1997 956,184 7.3 (#4)
27 / 460
  105 Opposition
2001 Jarosław Kalinowski 1,168,659 9.0 (#5)
42 / 460
  15 Coalition until 2003
2005 Waldemar Pawlak 821,656 7.0 (#6)
25 / 460
  17 Opposition
2007 1,437,638 8.9 (#4)
31 / 460
  6 Coalition
2011 1,201,628 8.4 (#4)
28 / 460
  3 Coalition
2015 Janusz Piechociński 779,875 5.1 (#6)
16 / 460
  12 Opposition
2019 Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz 972,339 5.3 (#4)
19 / 460
  3 Opposition
As part of Polish Coalition, which won 30 seats in total.
2023 1,189,629 5.5 (#3)
28 / 460
  9 TBA
As part of Third Way, which won 65 seats in total.

Senate edit

Election year # of
overall seats won
+/–
1991
7 / 100
  4
1993
36 / 100
  29
1997
3 / 100
  33
2001
4 / 100
  1
2005
2 / 100
  2
2007
0 / 100
  2
2011
2 / 100
  2
2015
1 / 100
  1
2019[63][64]
2 / 100
  1

Presidential edit

Election year Candidate 1st round 2nd round
# of overall votes % of overall vote # of overall votes % of overall vote
1990 Roman Bartoszcze 1,176,175 7.2 (#5)
1995 Waldemar Pawlak 770,419 4.3 (#5)
2000 Jarosław Kalinowski 1,047,949 6.0 (#4)
2005 Jarosław Kalinowski 269,316 1.8 (#5)
2010 Waldemar Pawlak 294,273 1.8 (#5)
2015 Adam Jarubas 238,761 1.6 (#6)
2020 Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz 459,365 2.4 (#5)

Regional assemblies edit

Election year % of
vote
# of
overall seats won
+/–
1998 12.0 (#3)
89 / 855
As part of the Social Alliance.
2002 10.8 (#5)
58 / 561
  31
2006 13.2 (#4)
83 / 561
  25
2010 16.3 (#3)
93 / 561
  10
2014 23.9 (#3)
157 / 555
  64
2018 12.1 (#3)
70 / 552
  87

European Parliament edit

Election year # of
votes
% of
vote
# of
overall seats won
+/–
2004 386,340 6.3 (#7)
4 / 54
2009 516,146 7.0 (#4)
3 / 50
  1
2014 480,846 6.8 (#5)
4 / 51
  1
2019 5,249,935 38.5 (#2)
3 / 52
  1
As the European Coalition which won 22 seats in total

Leadership edit

Chairman:

Voivodeship Marshals edit

Name Image Voivodeship Date Vocation
Adam Struzik   Masovian Voivodeship 10 December 2001
Gustaw Marek Brzezin   Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship 12 December 2014

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ since 2019
  2. ^ before 2019

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External links edit

  • Official website   (in Polish)

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of PolandPolitical partiesElectionsIts history traces back to 1895 when it held the name People s Party although its name was changed to the present one in 1903 During the Second Polish Republic the Polish People s Party was represented by a number of parties that held its name They were all supportive of agrarian policies although they spanned from the left wing to the centre right on the political spectrum It was reformed to the People s Party shortly after the Sanacja regime took power It took part into the formation of Polish government in exile during the World War II and after the war it was again reformed into the Polish People s Party and soon after into the United People s Party During the existence of the Polish People s Republic it was seen as a satellite party of the ruling Polish United Workers Party that promoted rural interests After the fall of communism it participated in the governments led by the Democratic Left Alliance In the mid 2000s it began shifting more to the centre right and it adopted more conservative policies It entered in the government again following the 2007 parliamentary election and since 2015 it has served in the opposition Today it is positioned in the centre 4 and leans towards the centre right 5 6 7 and besides holding agrarian and conservative views 8 9 10 it is also Christian democratic 11 12 13 and supports Poland s membership in the European Union 14 It currently has 19 seats in the Sejm and two seats in the Senate On national level it heads the Polish Coalition and on European level it is a part of the European People s Party Contents 1 History 1 1 Before 1945 1 2 Under the communist regime 1 3 Post communist period 1990 2003 1 4 Opposition years 2003 2007 1 5 Coalition government 2007 2015 1 6 Modern period 2015 present 2 Ideology 3 Election results 3 1 Support 3 2 Sejm 3 3 Senate 3 4 Presidential 3 5 Regional assemblies 3 6 European Parliament 4 Leadership 4 1 Voivodeship Marshals 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksHistory editBefore 1945 edit The party s name traces its tradition to an agrarian party in Austro Hungarian controlled Galician Poland which sent MPs to the parliament in Vienna 15 The party was formed in 1895 in the Polish town of Rzeszow under the name Stronnictwo Ludowe People s Party The party changed its name in 1903 to what it s known as now The party was led by Wincenty Witos and was quite successful seating representatives in the Galician parliament before the turn of the 19th century In the Second Polish Republic there were a few parties named PSL Polish People s Party Wyzwolenie Polish People s Party Piast Polish People s Party Left and others until they were removed by the Sanacja regime see also People s Party 15 During this time there were two parties using the term Polish People s Party namely Polish People s Party Piast and Polish People s Party Wyzwolenie which were merged into People s Party with Stronnictwo Chlopskie During World War II PSL took part in forming the Polish government in exile 15 Under the communist regime edit nbsp Support for the PSL by region in 2007 Polish parliamentary electionIn June 1945 after the war Stanislaw Mikolajczyk a PSL leader who had been Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile returned to communist dominated Poland where he joined the provisional government and rebuilt PSL The party hoped to win the Yalta Conference mandated elections and help establish a parliamentary system in Poland However the party soon found itself targeted with intimidation arrests and violence by the communist secret police 16 The communists also formed a rival ersatz Peasants party controlled by them in order to confuse voters The January 1947 parliamentary election was heavily rigged with the communist controlled bloc claiming to have won 80 percent of the vote The PSL were said to have won just 10 percent of the vote but many neutral observers believe the PSL would have won the election had it been conducted fairly 15 Mikolajczyk was soon compelled to flee Poland for his life in October 1947 The communists then forced the remains of Mikolajczyk s PSL to unite with the pro communist People s Party to form the United People s Party The ZSL was a governing partner in the ruling coalition 17 Post communist period 1990 2003 edit Around the time of the fall of communism several PSLs were recreated including Porozumienie Ludowe Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe Odrodzenie and Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe Wilanow faction In 1989 most merged into one party and took part in forming the first postwar noncommunist government in Poland with the Solidarity grouping and in 1990 changed its name to PSL 18 19 It remained on the left of Polish politics in the 1990s entering into coalitions with the postcommunist Democratic Left Alliance 20 21 22 In the 2001 parliamentary elections PSL received 9 of votes and formed a coalition with the Democratic Left Alliance an alliance which later broke down Since then PSL has moved towards more centrist and conservative policies Opposition years 2003 2007 edit The party ran in the 2004 European Parliament election as part of the European People s Party EPP and received 6 of the vote giving it four of 54 Polish seats in the European Parliament 20 23 In the 2005 general election the party received 7 of votes giving it 25 seats in the Sejm and two in the Senate In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party placed fourth with 8 93 of the vote and 31 out of 460 seats and entered into a governing coalition with the victor the centre right conservative Civic Platform 24 In European parliament elections PSL received 7 01 of votes in 2009 25 In the 2011 national parliamentary election Polish People s Party received 8 36 votes which gave them 28 seats in the Sejm and two mandates in the Senate 26 Coalition government 2007 2015 edit After the parliamentary elections in 2007 PSL won 8 91 of the popular vote and 31 seats 27 it joined the government coalition led by Civic Platform Waldemar Pawlak was appointed deputy prime minister Marek Sawicki was appointed as agriculture minister and Jolanta Fedak was appointed as labor minister In the 2009 European Parliament election it won 3 seats 28 After the Smolensk air disaster presidential elections were held in which Pawlak placed fifth winning 1 75 of the vote In the second round they didn t state their support for anyone 29 In the 2010 local government elections PSL obtained 16 3 of the votes in the elections to voivodship assemblies in which it received 93 seats In the Swietokrzyskie sejmik the party received the most seats In all parliamentary assemblies PSL found itself in ruling coalitions with the PO in four voivodeships receiving the positions of marshals In the elections to poviat councils the PSL committee obtained 15 88 and in the elections to municipal councils 11 of the votes The PSL won the largest number of village leaders 428 and mayors in the country and in Zgierz the party s candidate won the presidential election In 2011 a PiS senator defected to PSL 30 In the parliamentary elections of 2011 PSL obtained 8 36 of votes on the list of candidates for the Sejm 31 The party also won two seats in the Senate 32 Eugeniusz Grzeszczak became the deputy speaker of the Sejm on behalf of the PSL 33 PSL again became a partner of the PO in the government coalition On December 7 2011 as a result of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty Arkadiusz Bratkowski a PSL politician assumed a mandate in the European Parliament 34 In July 2012 Stanislaw Kalemba replaced Marek Sawicki as the minister of agriculture and rural development Pawlak was defeated during the presidential election by Janusz Piechocinski 35 Two days later Waldemar Pawlak announced his resignation as deputy prime minister and minister of economy He was dismissed from both functions on November 27 On December 6 both these offices were taken over by Janusz Piechocinski In January 2014 PSL decided to establish cooperation with SKL and Samoobrona but SKL already in February announced that Jaroslaw Gowin joined Poland Together and the PSL talks about a joint election campaign with Samoobrona did not end with an agreement In March MP Andrzej Dabrowski left PSL 36 The party s candidate in the 2015 presidential election was the marshal of the Swietokrzyskie Province party vice president Adam Jarubas 37 He placed 6th obtaining 238 761 votes 38 Before the second round PSL was involved in the campaign of the then incumbent President Bronislaw Komorowski 39 Modern period 2015 present edit See also Polish CoalitionAt the 2015 parliamentary election the PSL dropped to 5 13 percent of the vote just barely over the 5 percent threshold With 16 seats it was the smallest of the five factions in the Sejm 40 Since then PSL has lost even more support to PiS during the 2018 Polish local elections when they lost 87 seats and dropped to 12 07 unlike the 23 9 they got at the last local elections After this the party became a junior partner in coalition with the Civic Coalition and SLD In 2019 European election PSL won 3 seats as a part of the European Coalition 41 For parliamentary elections in the same year PSL decided to create a centrist and Christian democratic coalition called the Polish Coalition 42 The Polish Coalition apart from PSL consisted of Kukiz 15 Union of European Democrats and other liberal catholic and regionalist organisations 43 44 45 The coalition managed to get 30 Sejm members elected 20 of whom were members of PSL In November 2020 PSL decided to end coalition with Kukiz 15 due to differences on negotiations on EU budget 46 Ideology editThe Polish People s Party adhered to principles of social democracy and agrarian socialism during the 1990s although it has moved towards Christian democracy in the 2000s 47 48 49 It was positioned on the left wing on the political spectrum during that period 50 The party s platform is strongly based on agrarianism 51 On social and ethical issues PSL is attached to more social conservative values citation needed as it opposes abortion although it is against its criminalization defending the current abortion law in Poland 52 legalisation of same sex marriage euthanasia death penalty 53 and soft drug decriminalisation 54 The party is in favour of maintaining religion lessons in public education 53 In 2019 the party adopted as part of an agreement with Kukiz 15 in the party s platform direct democracy s postulates including introducing single member districts electronic voting and obligatory referendums 55 Moreover during the leadership of Kosiniak Kamysz PSL has visibly started leaning towards economic liberalism in order to gain voters in bigger cities 56 Kosiniak Kamysz himself has described party s ideology as moderately centrist 57 58 and Christian democratic 59 Election results editSupport edit The Party s traditional support base consisted of farmers peasants and rural voters Voters are generally more social conservative than voters of Civic Platform 60 Its main competitor in rural areas is the national conservative Law and Justice PiS 61 In the 2010s the party started to lose support between rural voters especially in southeast of Poland e g Subcarpathian Voivodeship In 2019 election PSL gained surprisingly significant support in cities and won mandates e g in Warsaw and Wroclaw 62 Sejm edit Election year Leader ofvotes ofvote ofoverall seats won Government1991 Waldemar Pawlak 972 952 8 7 5 48 460 New Government Support1993 2 124 367 15 4 2 132 460 nbsp 84 Coalition1997 956 184 7 3 4 27 460 nbsp 105 Opposition2001 Jaroslaw Kalinowski 1 168 659 9 0 5 42 460 nbsp 15 Coalition until 20032005 Waldemar Pawlak 821 656 7 0 6 25 460 nbsp 17 Opposition2007 1 437 638 8 9 4 31 460 nbsp 6 Coalition2011 1 201 628 8 4 4 28 460 nbsp 3 Coalition2015 Janusz Piechocinski 779 875 5 1 6 16 460 nbsp 12 Opposition2019 Wladyslaw Kosiniak Kamysz 972 339 5 3 4 19 460 nbsp 3 OppositionAs part of Polish Coalition which won 30 seats in total 2023 1 189 629 5 5 3 28 460 nbsp 9 TBAAs part of Third Way which won 65 seats in total Senate edit Election year ofoverall seats won 1991 7 100 nbsp 41993 36 100 nbsp 291997 3 100 nbsp 332001 4 100 nbsp 12005 2 100 nbsp 22007 0 100 nbsp 22011 2 100 nbsp 22015 1 100 nbsp 12019 63 64 2 100 nbsp 1Presidential edit Election year Candidate 1st round 2nd round of overall votes of overall vote of overall votes of overall vote1990 Roman Bartoszcze 1 176 175 7 2 5 1995 Waldemar Pawlak 770 419 4 3 5 2000 Jaroslaw Kalinowski 1 047 949 6 0 4 2005 Jaroslaw Kalinowski 269 316 1 8 5 2010 Waldemar Pawlak 294 273 1 8 5 2015 Adam Jarubas 238 761 1 6 6 2020 Wladyslaw Kosiniak Kamysz 459 365 2 4 5 Regional assemblies edit Election year ofvote ofoverall seats won 1998 12 0 3 89 855As part of the Social Alliance 2002 10 8 5 58 561 nbsp 312006 13 2 4 83 561 nbsp 252010 16 3 3 93 561 nbsp 102014 23 9 3 157 555 nbsp 642018 12 1 3 70 552 nbsp 87European Parliament edit Election year ofvotes ofvote ofoverall seats won 2004 386 340 6 3 7 4 542009 516 146 7 0 4 3 50 nbsp 12014 480 846 6 8 5 4 51 nbsp 12019 5 249 935 38 5 2 3 52 nbsp 1As the European Coalition which won 22 seats in totalLeadership editChairman Roman Bartoszcze 1990 1991 Waldemar Pawlak 1991 1997 Jaroslaw Kalinowski 1997 2004 Janusz Wojciechowski 2004 2005 Waldemar Pawlak 2005 2012 Janusz Piechocinski 2012 2015 Wladyslaw Kosiniak Kamysz 2015 present Voivodeship Marshals edit Name Image Voivodeship Date VocationAdam Struzik nbsp Masovian Voivodeship 10 December 2001Gustaw Marek Brzezin nbsp Warmian Masurian Voivodeship 12 December 2014See also editList of Polish People s Party politiciansNotes edit since 2019 before 2019References edit Wniosek o udostepnienie informacji publicznej liczba czlonkow PSL Retrieved 25 June 2018 Kluby i kola sejm gov pl Archived from the original on 23 September 2015 Retrieved 10 May 2015 Cerami Alfio 2006 Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe The Emergence of a New European Welfare 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