Polish Labour Party
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The Polish Labour Party (Polish
: Polska Partia Pracy, PPP) is a minor left-wing political party
in Poland
, describing itself as socialist
. It was created on 11 November 2001 as the 'Alternative - Labour Party' (Alternatywa – Partia Pracy) and acquired its current name in 2004. The party is affiliated with the Wolny Związek Zawodowy "Sierpień 80" - Konfederacja trade union.
The party is opposed to privatisation of state assets resulting from the post-communist
reforms of the 1990s and supports increased state expenditure. It is opposed to Polish involvement in the European Union
and supports increased cooperation with Poland’s eastern neighbours
, free education and health care, free (state funded) contraception
and abortion
s, recognition of same-sex civil unions, the withdrawal of Polish troops from Iraq
, the elimination of conscription and the introduction of a professional military, and the introduction of a 35 hour working week. It opposed the introduction of a flat tax
and the introduction of capital punishment
. The PPP also advocates a withdrawal from the concordat
between the Polish state and the Catholic Church.
The Party’s candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential election
, Daniel Podrzycki
, died in a car accident on September 24, 2005, one day prior to the parliamentary elections
. The party achieved 91,266 votes or 0.77% in the 2005 elections, In the 2007 parliamentary elections
the party won 0.99 % of the popular vote and no seats in the Sejm
and the Senate of Poland
.
Polish language
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: Polska Partia Pracy, PPP) is a minor left-wing political party
Political party
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in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, describing itself as socialist
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
. It was created on 11 November 2001 as the 'Alternative - Labour Party' (Alternatywa – Partia Pracy) and acquired its current name in 2004. The party is affiliated with the Wolny Związek Zawodowy "Sierpień 80" - Konfederacja trade union.
The party is opposed to privatisation of state assets resulting from the post-communist
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
reforms of the 1990s and supports increased state expenditure. It is opposed to Polish involvement in the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
and supports increased cooperation with Poland’s eastern neighbours
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
, free education and health care, free (state funded) contraception
Contraception
Contraception is the prevention of the fusion of gametes during or after sexual activity. The term contraception is a contraction of contra, which means against, and the word conception, meaning fertilization...
and abortion
Abortion
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...
s, recognition of same-sex civil unions, the withdrawal of Polish troops from Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, the elimination of conscription and the introduction of a professional military, and the introduction of a 35 hour working week. It opposed the introduction of a flat tax
Flat tax
A flat tax is a tax system with a constant marginal tax rate. Typically the term flat tax is applied in the context of an individual or corporate income that will be taxed at one marginal rate...
and the introduction of capital punishment
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...
. The PPP also advocates a withdrawal from the concordat
Concordat
A concordat is an agreement between the Holy See of the Catholic Church and a sovereign state on religious matters. Legally, they are international treaties. They often includes both recognition and privileges for the Catholic Church in a particular country...
between the Polish state and the Catholic Church.
The Party’s candidate in the 2005 Polish presidential election
Polish presidential election, 2005
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, Daniel Podrzycki
Daniel Podrzycki
Daniel Tomasz Podrzycki , was a Polish socialist politician.His career began from participation in the activity of illegal students' circles of Warsaw, which appeared at the end of the Seventies and were oriented at the beginning on the diccident Committee on Defending the Workers and later on the...
, died in a car accident on September 24, 2005, one day prior to the parliamentary elections
Polish parliamentary election, 2005
Parliamentary elections for both houses of the Parliament of Poland were held on September 25, 2005. Thirty million voters were eligible to vote for all 460 members of the lower house, the Assembly of the Republic of Poland , and all 100 members of the upper house, the Senate of the Republic of...
. The party achieved 91,266 votes or 0.77% in the 2005 elections, In the 2007 parliamentary elections
Polish parliamentary election, 2007
Early parliamentary elections for both houses of parliament were held in Poland on 21 October 2007 after the Sejm voted for its own dissolution on 7 September 2007. The election took place two years before the maximum tenure of four years, with the previous elections having been in September 2005...
the party won 0.99 % of the popular vote and no seats in the Sejm
Sejm
The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....
and the Senate of Poland
Senate of Poland
The Senate is the upper house of the Polish parliament, the lower house being the 'Sejm'. The history of the Polish Senate is rich in tradition and stretches back over 500 years, it was one of the first constituent bodies of a bicameral parliament in Europe and existed without hiatus until the...
.
External links
- Polska Partia Pracy (Official website)
- Where Does the Left Come From?