Catholic Electoral Committee "Fatherland"

Catholic Electoral Committee "Fatherland"
Katolicki Komitet Wyborczy "Ojczyzna" (Polish)
Founded13 July 1993
Dissolved20 September 1993
IdeologyChristian democracy
Conservatism
Anti-communism
Agrarianism
Factions:
Political Catholicism
Economic nationalism[1]
Political positionCentre-right[2][3]
Members
Colors
  •   Blue
  •   Red

The Catholic Electoral Committee "Fatherland" (Polish: Katolicki Komitet Wyborczy "Ojczyzna", KKW or Ojczyzna) was a conservative and Christian democratic electoral alliance in Poland. It consisted of five parties - the Christian National Union (ZChN), Conservative Party (PK), Christian-Peasant Party (SLCh), Party of Christian Democrats (PChD) and the Federation of Polish Entrepreneurship (FPP).[4]

The coalition was based on the Catholic Electoral Action that participated in the 1991 Polish parliamentary election. In contrast to the 1991 coalition, the Catholic Electoral Committee "Fatherland" downplayed national-Catholicism in favor of more moderate image, and tried to attract centre-right voters. It failed to gain support of the Catholic clergy and tried to develop support bases in parish councils instead.[4] It ultimately failed to cross the 8% electoral threshold for coalitions and gained no seats. It greatly contributed to the fragmentation of centre-right parties in the 1993 election.[5]

  1. ^ "Program i lista kandydatów Wyborczej Akcji Katolickiej w Lublinie". Spuścizna Zarządu Regionu Środkowowschodniego NSZZ "Solidarność" W Lublinie. 1991-08-01. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
  2. ^ Łopata, Maryan (25 October 2017). "Preferencje polityczne w wyborach do Sejmu w Małopolsce i na Podkarpaciu na tle porównawczym". Humanitarian Vision (in Polish). 3 (2). Lviv Politechnic Publishing House: 89. W następnej tabeli wymieniono także ugrupowania polityczne, które w skali badanego regionu Galicji Zachodniej zdobyły poparcie przekraczające 5 procent, a właśnie NSZZ "Solidarność" i centroprawicową koalicję Katolicki Komitet Wyborczy "Ojczyzna". [The next table also lists the political groupings which, on the scale of the Western Galicia region surveyed, won support in excess of 5 per cent, and it was the NSZZ "Solidarność" and the centre-right coalition Catholic Electoral Committee "Ojczyzna".]
  3. ^ Stodolny, Marek (24 June 2015). Ruch Konserwatywno–Ludowy w III RP (in Polish). Poznań: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. p. 161. Rzeczywiście, podczas dwóch tur, trwających przeszło 9 godzin, rozmów polityków partii centroprawicowych powstał wspólny blok wyborczy pod nazwą Katolicki Komitet Wyborczy ,,Ojczyzna". [Indeed, during two rounds of talks by politicians from the centre-right parties, which lasted more than nine hours, a joint electoral bloc was formed under the name Catholic Electoral Committee 'Fatherland'.]
  4. ^ a b Stodolny, Marek (24 June 2015). Ruch Konserwatywno–Ludowy w III RP (in Polish). Poznań: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. pp. 161–164.
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