German Minority Electoral Committee

German Minority Electoral Committee
Komitet Wyborczy Mniejszość Niemiecka
LeaderRyszard Galla
Founded1990
Headquarters6 Konopnickiej Street, 45-004, Opole
3 Wczasowa Street, 47-400, Racibórz
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[4][5]
European affiliationEuropean People's Party (Congress)[6]
Colours  Blue
Sejm
0 / 460
Voivodeship Sejmik of Opole Voivodeship
5 / 30
Powiat Councils in Opole
36 / 219
Gmina Councils in Opole
178 / 1,139
Mayors in Opole
12 / 71
Website
mniejszoscniemiecka.eu
German Minority in the Polish region of Upper Silesia (Opole Voivodeship and Silesian Voivodeship).
Votes for the German Minority in the 2007 elections, Opole Voivodeship.

The German Minority Electoral Committee (Polish: Komitet Wyborczy Mniejszość Niemiecka, German: Wahlkomitee Deutsche Minderheit) is an electoral committee in Poland which represents the German minority. Since 2008, its representative has been Ryszard Galla. In the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, Galla lost his seat in the Sejm, leaving the party with no national representation.[7]

It is not a registered political party, but an organization by which Poland's political system gives political representation to national minorities. Candidates of the German minority are proposed by the Social-Cultural Association of Germans in Opolitian Silesia (Polish: Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Niemców na Śląsku Opolskim, German: Wahlkomitee Sozial-Kulturelle Gesellschaft der Deutschen im Oppelner Schlesien) and the Social-Cultural Association of Germans in Silesian Voivodeship (Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Niemców Województwa Śląskiego).[8]

  1. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Poland". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
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  4. ^ Aleksandra Kruk; Piotr Pochyły (2015). "Mniejszość Niemiecka". Przegląd Narodowościowy (in Polish). 4. Zielona Góra: 77.
  5. ^ Szczepański, Andrzej (2013). Aktywność społeczno-polityczna mniejszości niemieckiej na Śląsku Opolskim po 1989 roku. Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek. p. 179. ISBN 978-83-7780-395-0.
  6. ^ "Détail pays - Congress of Local and Regional Authorities - www.coe.int".
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference opole_1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Home". dfkschlesien.vdg.pl.