Confederation Liberty and Independence

Political party and coalition in Poland

Confederation Liberty and Independence

Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość

Co-chairmen|

* Sławomir Mentzen
* Krzysztof Bosak

Party Leaders|

* Sławomir Mentzen
* Krzysztof Bosak
* Grzegorz Braun
* Mirosław Piotrowski

Founders| Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Grzegorz Braun, Piotr Liroy-Marzec, Robert Winnicki, Kaja Godek
Founded| 6 December 2018
Headquarters| ul. Wiejska 12a, 00-490 Warsaw
Youth wing| All-Polish Youth
Ideology|

* Polish nationalism
* Right-wing populism[1]
* Economic liberalism
* Hard Euroscepticism

Political position| Far-right
Members|

* National Movement
* New Hope
* Confederation of the Polish Crown
* Union of Christian Families
* National League

Sejm|

18 / 460

Senate|

0 / 100

European Parliament|

0 / 51

Regional assemblies|

1 / 552

Website
konfederacja.pl

* Politics of Poland
* Political parties
* Elections

The Confederation Liberty and Independence (Polish: Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość), frequently shortened to just Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja), is a far-right political alliance in Poland. It was initially founded in 2018 as a political coalition for the 2019 European Parliament election in Poland, although it was later expanded into a political party in order to circumvent the 8% vote threshold for coalitions to enter the national parliament. It won 11 seats in the Sejm after the 2019 Polish parliamentary election. Its candidate for the 2020 Polish presidential election was Krzysztof Bosak, who placed fourth among eleven candidates.

A coalition mainly led by New Hope, the National Movement, and the Confederation of the Polish Crown, it is right-wing oriented and is considered to be a part of the radical right. It has expressed right-wing populist rhetoric and a more hardline opposition stance towards the European Union and immigration. It is economically liberal and has called for lowering taxes, and has also expressed socially conservative and Polish nationalist stances.

## History[edit]

Two political parties, KORWiN and National Movement, announced in late 2018 that they had decided to run together in the 2019 European Parliament election in Poland.[2][3] In early 2019, Grzegorz Braun's organization and Piotr Krzysztof Liroy-Marzec's party joined the coalition.[4] Kaja Godek, an ultraconservative activist, announced that she would join the list.[5] The coalition was initially dubbed the Pro-Polish Coalition. By late February 2019, it was changed to Konfederacja Korwin Braun Liroy Narodowcy.[6][7] In March 2019, an application was submitted to register the party under that name,[8] and the Federation for the Republic of Poland soon joined the alliance including some representatives.[9][10][11] Its name was changed again, this time to Confederation.[12] The Party of Drivers joined the coalition in April, and soon after they elected Marek Jakubiak as the chairman.[13][14] The Confederation placed fourth in the 2019 European Parliament election, winning 4.55% of the popular vote, although it did not reach the electoral threshold.[15] After the election, Braun applied for the registration of the Confederation of the Polish Crown.[16]

The coalition was registered on 25 July 2019 under the name Confederation Liberty and Independence.[17] Godek left the coalition soon after.[18] Shortly before the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, a schism occurred in the coalition, with many representatives joining the coalition while some of them also left.[19][20] The coalition ended up winning 6.81% of the popular vote and won 11 seats in the Sejm.[21][22] Most of the support the party received was in southeast and northern parts of Poland.[23] 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] In November 2019, they presented nine candidates that took part in the 2019–20 Confederation presidential primary.[25] The winner of the presidential primary was Krzysztof Bosak, who became the coalition candidate for the 2020 Polish presidential election.[26] During the first round of the election, Bosak received 1,317,380 votes or 6.78%, coming fourth among eleven candidates.[27]

In 2022, serious internal splits emerged as a result of Sławomir Mentzen's and Janusz Korwin-Mikke's pro-Russian and Ukrainophobic stances in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, causing several members to renounce their KORWiN memberships, albeit remaining within the coalition.[28] Ahead of the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, they are considered the kingmakers. Bosak, one of Confederation's leaders, said: "Confederation has no intention of prolonging PiS's power or facilitating Tusk's return to power. The majority of our voters do not want this."[29] Korwin-Mikke, a former member of the European Parliament who is running for the party from the Warsaw region in 2023, has a history of sexist statements about women.[29] He said: "I am against voting rights for women. This is biology. A woman at the age of 55, when estrogen stops working, reaches the age when she can finally vote."[30] Ryszard Zajączkowski, a university professor and one of the coalition's candidates, said that Poles were subjected to what he described as genocide "at the hands of Jews working together with communists" after World War II,[31] and said that communism is worse than fascism. He said: "Compared to which the Auschwitz camp could be called a holiday camp."[29]

## Ideology and position[edit]

The Confederation is a right-wing orientated political alliance,[32][33] and it is positioned on the far right on the political spectrum.[34] It is also considered to be a part of the radical right,[35] although some[specify] have disputed that it does not contain all elements of the radical right.[36]

Its ideology includes support for numerous right-wing populist ideas.[1] It has presented a hardline opposition stance to the European Union,[37][38][39] and has criticized its and Law and Justice's policies towards immigration, calling for harder stances against illegal immigration instead.[40][41] It is also socially conservative,[42] and anti-feminist, it also supports total ban on abortion, and supports the traditional family model.[43] It has also expressed xenophobic views,[44] and has openly provided support for antisemitism.[45][46][47] When it first ran in the 2019 European Parliament election, Sławomir Mentzen said: "We don't want Jews, homosexuals, abortion, taxes and the European Union."[29] He has since tried to distance himself from this.[29] During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has also spread misinformation about COVID-19 and opposed laws that were implemented by the government.[48][49]

Unlike the Law and Justice, its economic position is orientated towards economic liberalism, and it is considered strongly pro-free market.[50][51][52] It is Polish nationalist,[53][54] and has also been described as national-liberal.[55] In its program, they have stated their goal "to turn Poland into a ethnocracy and culturally homogenous nation built around traditionalist-Catholic principles".[45] It has also expressed nativist sentiment.[45]

### Platform[edit]

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

* Taxation[56]
* Eliminate the income tax
* Make social insurance contributions optional
* Reduce gasoline taxes
* Reduce government spending
* Judicial[57]
* Hire more judges' assistants
* Restore capital punishment[58]
* Education[59]
* 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[60]
* 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[61]
* Ban importation of garbage
* Oppose the European Union's climate change rules
* Protect human life from the moment of conception
* Business[62]
* Abolish penalties for street trade and raise the limits on unlicensed trade.
* Raise the VAT exemption to zl 400,000
* Index the tax exempt amount to be approximately twelve times the minimum wage
* Allow businesses to refuse services on moral grounds

## Composition[edit]

### Current political parties[edit]

Name  | Ideology  | Position  | Leader  | MPs | Senators | MEPs | Sejmiks | Entry

|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

| National Movement | Ultranationalism
National conservatism
Social conservatism
Militarism | Far-right | Krzysztof Bosak |

6 / 460

0 / 100

0 / 51

0 / 552

| 6 December 2018
| New Hope | Paleolibertarianism
Libertarian conservatism | Right-wing to far-right | Sławomir Mentzen |

8 / 460

0 / 100

0 / 51

0 / 552

| 6 December 2018
| Confederation of the Polish Crown | Monarchism
Traditionalism | Far-right | Grzegorz Braun |

4 / 460

0 / 100

0 / 51

0 / 552

| 7 January 2019
| Union of Christian Families | Social conservatism
Political Catholicism
Hard Euroscepticism | 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[edit]

Name  | Ideology  | Position  | Leader  | Type  | Entry

|
|
|
|
|

| Agrarian-Consumer Confederation  | Agrarianism, free-market economy |  | Krzysztof Tołwiński | Informal organisation  | 29 November 2019
| All-Polish Youth | Catholic nationalism, ultra-nationalism, anti-LGBT | Far-right | Marcin Kowalski  | Political youth movement  | 6 December 2018
| Conservative-Monarchist Club | Traditionalist conservatism, monarchism, Catholic nationalism, counter-revolutionary, integralist conservatism, anti-democracy | Far-right | Adam Wielomski | Philosophical and journalistic organisation  | 7 January 2019
| Polish Peasant Bloc | Agrarianism, conservatism |  | Wojciech Mojzesowicz | Informal organisation  | 6 December 2018

### Former political parties[edit]

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[63] | 28 June 2019[64]
| Efficient
(pl) | Direct-democracy[65]
Hard Euroscepticism[65] |  | Piotr "Liroy" Marzec | 1 September 2018  | 28 June 2019[64]
| Wolnościowcy | Libertarianism | Right-wing | Artur Dziambor | 17 March 2022  | 13 February 2023[66]
| Party of Drivers | Right-wing populism
Anti-bureaucratism
Anti-environmentalism | Right-wing | Lech Kędzierski  | 19 December 2022[67] | 10 April 2019

### Political parties who had members with individual agreements[edit]

Name  | Ideology  | Position  | Leader*  | Election  | Notes

|
|
|
|
|

| Free and Solidary[68] | Solidarism
Anti-communism | 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[68] | 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[68] | Political Catholicism | Right-wing 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
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 parties, organisations and movements[edit]

Name  | Ideology  | Position  | Leader  | Type  | Entry  | Exit

|
|
|
|
|
|

| Life and Family Foundation  | Anti-abortion movement[69][70]
Anti-LGBT | Far-right | Kaja Godek | Lobbyist foundation, social activist group  | 28 January 2019[71] | 9 August 2019[72]

## Results[edit]

### European Parliament[edit]

Election Year  | Votes  | %  | Rank  | Seats

|
|
|
|

2019 | 621,188  | 4.6  | 4th  |

0 / 52

### Sejm[edit]

Election year  | Votes  | %  | Rank  | Seats

|
|
|
|

2019 | 1,256,953  | 6.8  | 5th  |

11 / 460

2023 | 1,547,364  | 7.16  | 5th  |

18 / 460

### Senate[edit]

Election year  | Votes  | %  | Rank  | Seats

|
|
|
|

2019 | 144,124  | 0.8  | 6th  |

0 / 100

2023 | 1,443,836  | 6.75  | 6th  |

0 / 100

### Presidential[edit]

Election year  | Candidate  | 1st round  | 2nd round

|
|
|

No. of overall votes  | % of overall vote  | No. of overall votes  | % of overall vote
2020 | Krzysztof Bosak | 1,317,380  | 6.8 (4th)  |

### Internal[edit]

Year  | Election type  | Affiliation  | Final Candidate  | Number of initial candidates  | Number of rounds  | Final round

|
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|
|
|
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Electoral vote  | Percentage
2019–20 | American-style presidential primary |  | RN | Bosak | 9  | 1x 16 regional preliminaries
7x convention elimination  | 163  | 51.9%
| KKP | Braun | 146  | 46.5%

## See also[edit]

* Kukiz'15
* United Right

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Political parties and political associations in Poland

Represented in
the Sejm|

* United Right (191)
* Law and Justice (161)
* Sovereign Poland (18)
* The Republicans (4)
* Renew PR (5)
* Polish Affairs (1)
* Independent (2)*
* Civic Coalition (157)
* Civic Platform (127)
* Modern (6)
* Polish Initiative (4)
* The Greens (3)
* AGROunion (1)
* Yes! For Poland (1)
* Independents (15)**
* The Left (26)
* New Left (19)
* Left Together (7)
* Poland 2050 (33)
* Polish Coalition (32)
* Polish People's Party (28)
* Centre for Poland (3)
* Independent (1)***
* Confederation (18)
* National Movement (6)
* New Hope (8)
* Confederation of the Polish Crown (3)
* K'15 (3)

Represented in
the Senate|

* United Right (34)
* Law and Justice (29)
* Sovereign Poland (1)
* Independents (4)
* Civic Coalition (41)
* Civic Platform (36)
* Yes! For Poland (1)
* Independents (4)
* Third Way (Poland) (12)
* Poland 2050 (5)
* Polish People's Party (4)
* Centre for Poland (1)
* Union of European Democrats (1)
* Independent (1)
* The Left (9)
* New Left (5)
* Left Together (2)
* Polish Socialist Party (1)
* Labour Union (1)
* Independents (4)

Represented in the
European Parliament|

* United Right (27)
* Law and Justice (24)
* United Poland (2)
* The Republicans (1)
* Civic Coalition (15)
* Civic Platform (14)
* The Greens (1)
* The Left (4)
* New Left (4)
* Polish People's Party (3)

Other existing parties
and
political movements|

* Polish Coalition
* Alliance of Democrats
* Silesians Together
* Agreement (political party)
* Confederation
* All-Polish Youth*
* National League
* Party of Drivers
* Union of Christian Families
* Action of Disappointed Retirees and Pensioners
* Better Poland
* Civic Initiative
* Christian Democracy of the 3rd Polish Republic
* Common Powiat
* Edward Gierek's Economic Revival Movement
* Falanga
* First Self-Governance League
* Freedom and Equality
* Kashubian Association
* Labour Faction (1989)
* League of Polish Families
* National Party of Retirees and Pensioners
* National Radical Camp (1993)*
* National Revival of Poland
* New Democracy - Yes
* Nonpartisan Local Government Activists
* Organisation of the Polish Nation - Polish League
* Peasants' Party
* Piast Faction
* Polish Left
* Polish Pirate Party
* Polish Party of Animal Protection
* Polish Communist Party
* Real Politics Union
* Right Wing of the Republic
* Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland
* Self-Defence Rebirth
* Silesian Autonomy Movement*
* Silesian Regional Party*
* Silesian Separatist Movement*
* Socialist Alternative
* Solidarity*
* Slavic Union
* There is One Poland
* Workers' Democracy
* Freedomers
* German Minority****

Defunct parties|

| Pre-war and
inter-war eras|

* Catholic People's Party
* Centrolew
* Communist Party of Poland (KPP)
* Communist Party of Western Ukraine
* Communist Party of Western Belorussia
* Front Morges
* Labor Party (PP)
* Labour Faction (1937)
* National Democracy
* Christian Union of National Unity
* Camp of Great Poland
* Popular National Union
* National Party
* National Radical Camp
* National Radical Camp (1934)
* National Radical Camp Falanga
* National Radical Camp ABC
* National People's Union
* National Workers' Party
* Polish Christian Democratic Party
* Peasant's Party
* People's Party
* Polish Centre
* Polish People's Party "Piast"
* Polish People's Party "Nowe Wyzwolenie"
* Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie"
* Polish Socialist Party (1892)
* Polish Socialist Party – Freedom, Equality, Independence
* Polish Socialist Party – Left
* Polish Socialist Party of the Prussian Partition
* Polish Socialist Party – Revolutionary Faction
* Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania

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Communist era|

* Communist Party of Poland (Mijal)
* Confederation of Independent Poland
* Front of National Unity
* Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth
* Polish Workers' Party
* Polish United Workers' Party
* United People's Party

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Modern era|

* Alliance for Poland
* Agreement for the Future – CenterLeft
* Christian Democracy
* Christian National Union
* Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action
* Confederation of Independent Poland
* Conservative People's Party
* Democratic Left Alliance
* Democratic Left Alliance – Labour Union
* Democratic Party – demokraci.pl
* Democratic Union
* Europa Plus
* European Coalition
* Feminist Initiative/Women's Party
* Forward Poland
* Freedom Union
* Initiative for Poland
* Initiative RP
* League of the Right of the Republic
* Left and Democrats
* Liberal Democratic Congress
* Libertas Poland
* Movement for Reconstruction of Poland
* Now!
* Social Alliance
* Patriotic Self-Defence
* Party of Regions
* Party X
* Peasants' Agreement
* Poland Comes First
* Polish Beer-Lovers' Party
* Poland Fair Play
* Polish Labour Party - August 80
* Polish National Party
* Reason Party
* Right Alliance
* Self-Defence Social Movement
* Social Justice Movement
* Solidarity Electoral Action
* Spring
* United Left
* Your Movement

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**: Piotr Adamowicz et al.,
***: Marek Biernacki
****: not currently registered as a party

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