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Solidarity Electoral Action Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność (Polish) | |
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| Founded | 8 June 1996 |
| Dissolved | 18 October 2001[1] |
| Preceded by | Solidarity Citizens' Committee Centre Civic Alliance Solidarity lists |
| Ideology | Christian democracy[2] Conservatism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
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Solidarity Electoral Action (Polish: Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność, AWS) was a coalition of political parties in Poland, active from 1996 to 2001. AWS was the political arm of the Solidarity trade union, whose leader Lech Wałęsa (also an AWS member), was President of Poland from 1990 to 1995, and the successor of the parties emerged from the fragmentation of the Solidarity Citizens' Committee.
The coalition was led by Marian Krzaklewski and Jerzy Buzek, who was Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001.
Today's main parties in Poland, Law and Justice and Civic Platform, came out from the ashes of AWS.
- ^ Data zakończenia kadencji Sejmu z udziałem AWS. Kluby radnych AWS istniały nadal w samorządach (do 2002).
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2001). "Poland". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 7 February 2005.