Freedom Union (Poland)

Freedom Union
Unia Wolności
ChairmanTadeusz Mazowiecki (1994–1995)
Leszek Balcerowicz (1995–2000)
Bronisław Geremek (2000–2001)
Władysław Frasyniuk (2001–2005)
Founded20 March 1994
Dissolved9 May 2005; 19 years ago (2005-05-09)[a]
Merger ofDemocratic Union
Liberal Democratic Congress
Splitting off the Alliance of Democrats
Succeeded byDemocratic Party[a]
IdeologyNeoliberalism[1][2]
Political positionCentre-right[3][4][5]
European affiliationEuropean Democrat Union/European People's Party (1996-2002)
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group (2002-2005)
European Parliament groupEuropean Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (2002-2005)
^ a: In 24 January 2001, KLD faction split from this party to form Civic Platform.

The Freedom Union (Polish: Unia Wolności, UW) was a liberal[6] democratic political party in Poland.

  1. ^ Kamiński, Paweł; Rozbicka, Patrycja (2016). "Political Parties and Trade Unions in the Post-Communist Poland:: Class Politics that Have Never a Chance to Happen". Polish Political Science Yearbook. 45 (1). Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek: 197. AWS formed a coalition with the Freedom Union (UW). Both parties had their roots in the pre-1989 anticommunist movements, however, UW was also clearly neoliberal.
  2. ^ Kołodko, Grzegorz (2009). "A two-thirds of success. Poland's post-communist transformation" (PDF). Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 42. TIGER - Globalization, Transformation and Integration Economic Research: 330. As for the political consequences, two parties of the coalition government, neither the neoliberal Freedom Union, UW, nor the populist Solidarity Election Action, AWS, were able in the election of 2001 to receive a minimum 5 percent of votes required to get to the parliament.
  3. ^ Arthur S. Banks; Thomas C. Muller; William R. Overstreet; Judith F. Isacoff, eds. (2009). Political Handbook of the World 2009. CQ Press. p. 1071. ISBN 978-0-87289-559-1. ISSN 0193-175X. His main opponents among 17 other registered candidates were Aleksander KWAŚNIEWSKI of the SLD/SdRP, Jacek KUROŃ of the center-right Freedom Union (Unia Wolnósci—UW), and former prime ministers Olszewski and Pawlak.
  4. ^ Popić, Tamara (24 November 2014). Policy Learning, Fast and Slow: Market-Oriented Reforms of Czech and Polish Healthcare Policy, 1989-2009 (PDF) (Doctor of Political and Social Sciences thesis). Florence: European University Institute. p. 88. The Freedom Union (Unia Wolnosci - UW) emerged as one of the strongest parties, defining itself ideologically as a centre-right party and presenting liberal views on both economic and social reforms.
  5. ^ Green, Peter S. (3 October 1997). "Differences in New Coalition Appear Not to Run Deep : Poland Agrees on Free Market". New York Times. Officials from Solidarity Election Action, which won 201 seats in the 460-seat Sejm, or lower house of the National Assembly, and the center-right Freedom Union, which has 60 seats, say they see nearly eye-to-eye.
  6. ^ Paul G. Lewis (2000). Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. Routledge. pp. 51–. ISBN 978-0-415-20182-7. Retrieved 6 February 2013.