Patriotic Self-Defence

Patriotic Self-Defence
Samoobrona Patriotyczna
AbbreviationSP[1]
LeaderMarian Frądczyk
Founded21 September 2006
Registered10 July 2007
Dissolved9 January 2013
Split fromSRP
Headquartersul. Lubelska 61, 26-920 Gniewoszów
Membership (2006)20[2]
IdeologyNational agrarianism[3]
Social Catholicism[4]
Socialist populism[5]
Anti-capitalism[6]
Political positionRight-wing[A]
ReligionRoman Catholic[4]
Colours  Yellow
  Red
  Blue
Sejm
0 / 460
Senate
0 / 100
European Parliament
0 / 51
Regional assemblies
0 / 552
City presidents
0 / 117
^ A: The party was regarded to be a right-wing breakaway from SRP,[7] but it had also been described as left-wing populist.[8]

Patriotic Self-Defence (Polish: Samoobrona Patriotyczna, SP) was a minor political party in Poland. The party was founded in September 2006 by former members of the Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, SRP), who left the party following an argument with the leader of Self-Defence Andrzej Lepper.[2] The party ran in the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, where it tried to take votes from their former party by using a similar name, logo and political program.[1] Ultimately, the party's electoral lists were only accepted in one electoral district. The party won 0.02% of the nationwide vote.[9] It disbanded in 2013.[10]

The party consisted of about 20 Self-Defence members, who left the party after it consolidated itself into a far-left party.[2] The name of the party referred to the fact that the SRP completely abandoned nationalism by 2007. The ideology of Patriotic Self-Defence became a mixture of nationalist, Catholic and social policies and tried to play into the main political values of Self-Defence such as agrarianism, populism and socialism. Because Self-Defence had a broad voter coalition including the army, ultra-nationalists, socialists and farmers, Patriotic Self-Defence wanted to win over voters dismayed by SRP affirming itself as a radically left-wing party.[11]

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  2. ^ a b c "RSO ma czterech kandydatów na kandydata". wyborcza.pl (in Polish). 21 September 2009.
  3. ^ Pluta, Anna M. (September 2010). Legitimising Accession: Transformation Politics and Elite Consensus on E U Membership in Poland, 1989-2003 (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). London: London School of Economics and Political Science. p. 260.
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  5. ^ Učeň, Peter (2007). "Parties, Populism, and Anti-Establishment Politics in East Central Europe". The SAIS Review of International Affairs. 27 (1). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 52. doi:10.2307/26999344.
  6. ^ Szcześniak, Magda (2021). ""Populus Means the People, Ladies and Gentlemen." A Visual Archive of Peasant Protests during the Post-Socialist Transition". Theories and Practices of Visual Culture. 31. Widok: 30. doi:10.36854/widok/2021.31.2471.
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  9. ^ Piotr Borowiec (2008). Uwarunkowania, przebieg i wyniki wyborów parlamentarnych 2007 roku (PDF) (in Polish). p. 42.
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  11. ^ Madalena Pontes Meyer Resende (2004). An Ethos Theory of Party Positions on European Integration: Poland and Beyond (PDF). ProQuest LLC.