LEAGUE AND SELF-DEFENSE

'League and Self-Defense' (, LiS — ''lis'' also means fox in Polish) is a Polish political party to be founded as a merger between the left-wing populist Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SORP) and the national conservative Christian right League of Polish Families (LPR) in July 2007.^[1] The decision for the merger of the two parties was initiated following a crisis within Poland's ruling three party coalition, of the dominant Law and Justice (PiS) party, and junior partners SORP and LPR. On the 9th July, SORP leader, Andrzej Lepper, was dismissed from his position as Minister for Agriculture following a secret investigation by the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) which linked him and his department to corruptive practices. Lepper claimed to have been the victim of a politically motivated 'sting' operation, initiated by PM Kaczynski and PiS, and demanded that a parliamentary inquiry be conducted to investigate the legality and motivation of the CBA operation mounted against him. Lepper's stance drew him support from his own SORP party and the LPR.
The new party's platform will be mainly eurosceptic and anti-reformist.