CIVIC PLATFORM

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The 'Civic Platform' (, also called the 'Citizens' Platform') is an conservative political party in Poland. Since the 2005 parliamentary elections, it is the main and largest opposition party, with 133 seats (29%) in the Sejm, and 34 seats (34%) in the Senate.
It was the first Polish political party to form a shadow cabinet, and also the first to have chosen candidates for Parliament through primary elections. In 2005, however, it abandoned the primaries and the selection of its candidates was made by the party's grassroots and confirmed by its leader and 2005 presidential candidate, Donald Tusk.
Civic Platform is a member of the European People's Party (EPP).

Contents
Political program
Leaders
Pre-2005-election history
Founders
2001 Citizens' Platform Electoral Committee
See also
External links

Political program


The Civic Platform's program includes:

Flat tax rates: 15% personal income tax (PIT), corporate income tax (CIT) and VAT.

Tertiary education reform, with equal rights for private and public universities.

★ A larger portion of the budget for local government.

Privatization and demonopolization of some remaining sectors.

★ Direct elections of mayors and governors.

★ Private health care (currently, public healthcare is mandatory).

★ Single-seat parliamentary elections.

Labor law reform.

★ Teaching economics in all schools.

★ Retaining full control over monetary policy by the National Bank of Poland.

★ Lowering the number of MPs in the Sejm from 460 to 230, and depriving them of parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

Leaders



Donald Tusk - party chairman, parliamentary club chairman, presidential runner-up in the 2005 presidential election.

Jan Rokita - leader of the shadow cabinet.

Zbigniew Chlebowski

Bronisław Komorowski
==Members of Polish Parliament (Sejm) (2005-2009)==

Łukasz Abgarowicz 8 239 votes

Robert Ambroziewicz 9 943 votes

Paweł Arndt 6 546 votes

Urszula Augustyn 4 890 votes

Tadeusz Aziewicz 9 093 votes

Marek Biernacki 41 336 votes

Andrzej Biernat 6 244 votes

Bogdan Bojko 5 123 votes

Beata Bublewicz 5 198 votes

Jerzy Budnik 8 396 votes

Bożenna Bukiewicz 11 237 votes

Zbigniew Chlebowski 18 281 votes

Stanisław Chmielewski 3 419 votes

Janusz Chwierut 5 272 votes

Andrzej Czerwiński 13 770 votes

Grzegorz Dolniak 12 151 votes

Mirosław Drzewiecki 10 928 votes

Jarosław Duda 5 901 votes

Waldy Dzikowski 54 959 votes

Joanna Fabisiak 6 693 votes

Jerzy Fedorowicz 5 694 votes

Arkady Fiedler 9 920 votes

Czesław Fiedorowicz 16 153 votes

Krzysztof Gadowski 7 705 votes

Andrzej Gałażewski 9 524 votes

Stanisław Gawłowski 7 879 votes

Tomasz Głogowski 6 812 votes

Stanisław Gorczyca 5 822 votes

Cezary Grabarczyk 13 775 votes

Aleksander Grad 13 680 votes

Paweł Graś 11 919 votes

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz 137 280 votes

Rafał Grupiński 8 168 votes

Krzysztof Grzegorek 8 730 votes

Andrzej Gut-Mostowy 11 282 votes

Jolanta Hibner 3 512 votes

Stanisław Huskowski 12 334 votes

Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz 9 635 votes

Danuta Jazłowiecka 14 248 votes

Sebastian Karpiniuk 9 767 votes

Włodzimierz Karpiński 8 751 votes

Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska 4 615 votes

Kazimierz Kleina 7 896 votes

Józef Klim 7 815 votes

Ryszard Knosala 9 087 votes

Magdalena Kochan 6 294 votes

Bronisław Komorowski 42 100 votes

Ewa Kopacz 14 982 votes

Domicela Kopaczewska 4 870 votes

Tadeusz Kopeć 6 206 votes

Leszek Korzeniowski 7 798 votes

Roman Kosecki 4 395 votes

Jerzy Kozdroń 3 868 votes

Mirosław Koźlakiewicz 7 475 votes

Jacek Krupa 6 860 votes

Tomasz Kulesza 5 621 votes

Stanisław Lamczyk 6 276 votes

Tomasz Lenz 9 472 votes

Dariusz Lipiński 4 482 votes

Krzysztof Lisek 10 731 votes

Arkadiusz Litwiński 7 794 votes

Elżbieta Łukacijewska 14 166 votes

Beata Małecka-Libera 6 882 votes

Edward Maniura 11 279 votes

Andrzej Markowiak 10 539 votes

Konstanty Miodowicz 14 505 votes

Aldona Młyńczak 2 903 votes

Czesław Mroczek 8 311 votes

Izabela Mrzygłocka 5 271 votes

Rafał Muchacki 12 015 votes

Sławomir Nitras 14 238 votes

Tomasz Nowak 9 061 votes

Sławomir Nowak 9 559 votes

Stanisława Okularczyk 12 016 votes

Alicja Olechowska 6 395 votes

Paweł Bartosz Olszewski 6 850 votes

Zbigniew Pacelt 3 982 votes

Janusz Palikot 26 275 votes

Maria Pasło-Wiśniewska 7 062 votes

Sławomir Piechota 7 281 votes

Elżbieta Pierzchała 10 646 votes

Danuta Pietraszewska 9 841 votes

Teresa Piotrowska 16 716 votes

Julia Pitera 39 815 votes

Kazimierz Plocke 9 579 votes

Damian Raczkowski 5 527 votes

Elżbieta Radziszewska 16 199 votes

Ireneusz Raś 6 690 votes

Jan Rokita 72 145 votes

Halina Rozpondek 9 949 votes

Jakub Rutnicki 3 182 votes

Sławomir Rybicki 12 557 votes

Arkadiusz Rybicki 9 466 votes

Zbigniew Rynasiewicz 10 354 votes

Jan Rzymełka 8 878 votes

Wojciech Saługa 10 968 votes

Beata Sawicka 8 764 votes

Grzegorz Schetyna 14 978 votes

Henryk Siedlaczek 7 476 votes

Krystyna Skowrońska 16 479 votes

Joanna Skrzydlewska 11 822 votes

Andrzej Smirnow 10 263 votes

Lidia Staroń 12 188 votes

Michał Stuligrosz 12 659 votes

Waldemar Szadny 5 941 votes

Tomasz Szczypiński 7 399 votes

Adam Szejnfeld 26 568 votes

Jakub Szulc 5 004 votes

Krystyna Szumilas 16 105 votes

Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska 23 119 votes

Paweł Śpiewak 18 403 votes

Maciej Świątkowski 8 780 votes

Jan Walenty Tomaka 7 915 votes

Tomasz Tomczykiewicz 22 221 votes

Donald Tusk 79 237 votes

Robert Tyszkiewicz 13 232 votes

Jarosław Urbaniak 7 400 votes

Jarosław Wałęsa 14 709 votes

Ewa Więckowska 7 018 votes

Wojciech Wilk 5 501 votes

Jacek Wojciechowicz 3 380 votes

Ewa Wolak 3 465 votes

Marek Wójcik 1 408 votes

Eugeniusz Wycisło 6 836 votes

Jan Wyrowiński 14 279 votes

Jadwiga Zakrzewska 4 972 votes

Krzysztof Zaremba 22 812 votes

Bogdan Zdrojewski 73 959 votes

Anna Zielińska-Głębocka 3 797 votes

Wojciech Ziemniak 13 193 votes

Stanisław Żmijan 7 708 votes
===Members of Polish Senate (2005-2009)===
MP, constituency

Mirosława Nykiel, Bielsko-Biała
Elżbieta Gelert, Elbląg
Maria Pańczyk-Pozdziej, Gliwice
Edmund Wittbrodt, Gdynia / Słupsk
Mariusz Sebastian Witczak, Kalisz / Leszno
Krystyna Bochenek, Katowice
Michał Okła, Kielce
Piotr Zientarski, Koszalin
Andrzej Maria Gołaś, Kraków
Jarosław Gowin, Kraków
Tadeusz Maćkała, Legnica / Jelenia Góra
Jacek Bachalski, Zielona Góra / Gorzów Wielkopolski
Stefan Niesiołowski, Łódź
Franciszek Adamczyk, Nowy Sącz
Ryszard Górecki, Olsztyn
Ryszard Ciecierski, Opole
Piotr Wach, Opole
Mieczysław Augustyn, Piła
Przemysław Berent, Płock / Ciechanów
Marek Ziółkowski, Poznań
Andrzej Łuczycki, Radom
Antoni Motyczka, Rybnik
Andrzej Owczarek, Sieradz
Zbigniew Szaleniec, Sosnowiec
Włodzimierz Łyczywek, Szczecin
Urszula Gacek, Tarnów
Andrzej Person, Toruń / Włocławek
Michał Wojtczak, Toruń
Roman Edward Ludwiczuk, Wałbrzych
Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Warszawa
Marek Rocki, Warszawa
Robert Smoktunowicz, Warszawa
Tomasz Misiak, Wrocław
Władysław Sidorowicz, Wrocław

==Members of the European Parliament==
The Citizen's Platform obtained the largest number of votes (25%) of any Polish party in the 2004 elections to the European Parliament, giving it 15 of 54 Polish seats in the European Parliament. It is part of the European People's Party coalition.

Jerzy Buzek, ex prime minister, professor of technical sciences

Zdzisław Chmielewski, historian, rector of Szczecin University

Małgorzata Handzlik, publisher and journalist

Stanisław Jałowiecki, sociologist and politician

Filip Kaczmarek, historian and journalist

Bogdan Klich, expert on international politics

Barbara Kudrycka, professor of law

Janusz Lewandowski, economist, ex-minister of privatisation

Jan Olbrycht, politician, ex-mayor of Cieszyn

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, economist, former Poland-EU negotiator, vicepresident of the European Parliament

Jacek Protasiewicz, fililogist and politician

Bogusław Sonik, lawyer and politician

Zbigniew Zaleski, professor of psychology

Tadeusz Zwiefka, journalist

Pre-2005-election history


In the years 2001-2005, the party had 58 deputies in the Sejm. In 2005, the PO led all opinion polls with 26% to 30% support (The PO had 12% in the 2001 elections).
That rise in popularity was in part the effect of Jan Rokita's participation in the Sejm's Special Investigative Committee (investigating the Lew Rywin Affair), where he managed to uncover many irregularities in the post-communist SLD run cabinet.
However, the PO lost a significant amount of support immediately prior to the vote in 2005, and ended up with only the second-largest group of MPs in the Sejm. Despite widespread public anticipation of a coalition between PO and the conservative PiS party, this did not eventuate. The PO was then in opposition to a minority PiS government, which also received some support from the nationalist/conservative LPR and populist/agrarian Samoobrona parties. These three parties have since formed a somewhat stable coalition.
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Founders

The PO was founded in 2001 by Andrzej Olechowski, Maciej Płażyński, and Donald Tusk, sometimes jokingly called "the Three Tenors" of Polish politics. Olechowski and Płażyński left the party during the 2001-2005 parliamentary term.
===Members of Polish Parliament (Sejm) (2001-2005)===
MP, constituency

Łukasz Abgarowicz, Płock

Jacek Dariusz Bachalski, Gorzów Wielkopolski - Zielona Góra

Jerzy Budnik, Gdynia

Zbigniew Chlebowski, Wałbrzych

Andrzej Czerwiński, Nowy Sącz

Grzegorz Dolniak, Sosnowiec

Mirosław Drzewiecki, Łódź

Jarosław Duda, Wrocław

Waldy Dzikowski, Poznań

Marta Fogler, Warsaw

Andrzej Gałażewski, Gliwice

Zyta Gilowska, Lublin

Stanisław Gorczyca, Elbląg

Cezary Grabarczyk, Sieradz

Aleksander Grad, Tarnów

Paweł Graś, Chrzanów

Jerzy Hertel, Warsaw

Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz, Opole

Bronisław Komorowski, Warsaw

Ewa Kopacz, Radom

Leszek Korzeniowski, Opole

Józef Krzyworzeka, Kraków

Elżbieta Łukacijewska, Krosno

Tadeusz Maćkała, Legnica

Edward Maniura, Częstochowa

Andrzej Markowiak, Rybnik

Piotr Mateja, Katowice

Konstanty Miodowicz, Kielce

Sławomir Nowak, Gdańsk

Alicja Olechowska, Warsaw

Tadeusz Parchański, Nowy Sącz

Teresa Piotrowska, Bydgoszcz

Kazimierz Plocke, Gdynia

Edward Płonka, Bielsko-Biała

Elżbieta Radziszewska, Piotrków Trybunalski

Jan Rokita, Kraków

Sławomir Rybicki, Toruń

Jan Rzymełka, Katowice

Leszek Samborski, Warsaw

Grzegorz Schetyna, Wrocław

Krystyna Skowrońska, Rzeszów

Michał Stuligrosz, Poznań

Tomasz Szczypiński, Kraków

Adam Szejnfeld, Piła

Krystyna Szumilas, Gliwice

Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska, Łódź

Jan Tomaka, Rzeszów

Tomasz Tomczykiewicz, Bielsko-Biała

Donald Tusk, Gdynia

Eugeniusz Wycisło, Rybnik

Rafał Zagórny, Katowice

Krzysztof Zaremba, Szczecin

Bogdan Zdrojewski, Wrocław

Stanisław Żmijan, Chełm

Marek Żyliński, Olsztyn
2001 Citizens' Platform Electoral Committee

The 2001 Citizens' Platform electoral committee consisted of several political parties and groups (Platforma Obywatelska RP being the largest)

Stronnictwo-Konserwatywno Ludowe, leader: Artur Balazs

Unia Polityki Realnej, leader: Janusz Korwin-Mikke, chief: Jacek Boroń
===Members of Polish Senate (2001-2005)===

Stanisław Huskowski

Wojciech Saługa (since 29.09.2004)

Robert Smoktunowicz

Zbigniew Szaleniec

See also



Politics of Poland

List of political parties in Poland

External links



Civic Platform official site, English version

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