Movement for the Republic Ruch dla Rzeczypospolitej | |
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| Founder | Jan Olszewski |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Dissolved | 1999 |
| Split from | Centre Agreement Christian National Union |
| Succeeded by | Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland (Majority, including Olszewski) Regional Agreement RdR (Minority) Movement for the Republic – Patriotic Camp (Minority) Polish Christian Democratic Agreement (Minority) |
| Ideology | Christian democracy[1] Anti-neoliberalism[2] Protectionism[2] Distributism[2] |
| Political position | Centre-right[3] |
| Religion | Roman Catholic[2] |
| National affiliation | Coalition for the Republic (1993) |
| Colours | White Red Orange |
The Movement for the Republic (Polish: Ruch dla Rzeczypospolitej, RdR) was a Christian-democratic political party in Poland. The party was founded by former members of centrist Centre Agreement who protested the downfall of Jan Olszewski and his cabinet from power. The party aspired to become the leading Christian-democratic party in Poland and contested the 1993 Polish parliamentary election, but it gained no seats as it failed to cross the 5% electoral threshold. The party was also mired by several splits and internal conflicts, which results in the party disintegrating into several smaller parties and formations. In 1995, Movement for Reconstruction of Poland founded by the party's first leader Jan Olszewski, absorbed most members of the party. The RdR dissolved in 1999.[2]
Presenting itself as a party most dedicated to the tenets of Christian democracy on the Polish political scene, the Movement for the Republic stood out from other Polish centre-right parties by its highly hostile stance towards privatization and capitalist transition reforms, which it regarded as replacing one oligarchy with another. The party's economic program was based on the assumptions of distributism and envisioned an extensive renationalization program that would bring most industries in Poland back to state ownership, in addition to replacing the system of privatization with one based on employee shareholding, in which privatized companies would not be sold but distributed amongst its employees via shares.[2]
- ^ Paradowska, Janina (21 July 2001). "Ruch dwóch". polityka.pl (in Polish).
- ^ a b c d e f Lewandowski, Arkadiusz (2016). Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność: Centroprawica w poszukiwaniu modelu współpracy (in Polish). Płock: Wydawnictwo Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej w Płocku. pp. 255–263. ISBN 978-83-61601-03-6.
- ^ Stodolny, Marek (24 June 2015). Ruch Konserwatywno–Ludowy w III RP (in Polish). Poznań: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. p. 235.
Należy także pamiętać, że w kampanię Wałęsy zaangażował się NSZZ "Solidarność" oraz szereg partii centroprawicowych: Bezpartyjny Blok Wspierania Reform, Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne, Ruch dla Rzeczypospolitej, mniejsze ugrupowania tworzące Sekretariat Ugrupowań Centroprawicowych, Porozumienie Ludowe czy też część członków ZChN z prominentnymi politykami, jak Henryk Goryszewski, Halina Nowina-Konopka i Jan Łopuszański.
[It should also be remembered that the NSZZ "Solidarność" and a number of centre-right parties were involved in Wałęsa's campaign: The Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms, the National Democratic Party, the Movement for the Republic, smaller groupings forming the Secretariat of Centre-Right Groupings, the People's Agreement or some members of the ZChN with prominent politicians such as Henryk Goryszewski, Halina Nowina-Konopka and Jan Łopuszański.]