citizens platform

right Citizens Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) is a Polish conservative-liberal political party, modelled after the two main American parties. It is the first (and as of 2001 the only) Polish party which has chosen candidates for Parliament using a pre-election process.

Founders

It was founded in 2001 by Andrzej Olechowski, Maciej Plazynski, and Donald Tusk.

Political program

Citizens Platform proposes:

Flat tax rates: 15% income tax and 15% VAT.
Higher education reform, with equal rights for private and public universities.
More cash spending should be done by local government, less by central government.
Privatization and demonopolization.
Direct elections of mayors and governors.
Private health care.
Majoritarian parliamentary elections.
Labor law reform.
Narrowing privileges of trade unions.
Teaching economy in all schools.
Giving the National Bank of Poland full control over monetary policy.
Allowing private landlording.
Lowering the number of MP in the Sejm from 460 to 230, and depriving them of parliamentary immunity.

Leaders

Donald Tusk - party chairman
Jan Rokita - parliamentary caucus chairman
Zyta Gilowska - chief economist

The party 58 deputies in the Sejm. PO is now leading all the polls with 26% to 30% support (PO had 12% in 2001 elections). The rise in popularity is in part the effect of Jan Maria Rokita's participation in the Sejm's Special Inquiry Commission (The Lew Rywin Affair), where he managed to uncover many irregularities in the post-communist SLD run cabinet.

Members of Polish Parliament (Sejm)

MP, constituency

Citizens Platform Electoral Committee

The 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: Stanisław Wojtera

Members of Polish Senate

Members of European Parliament

As part of the European People's Party, Citizens Platform was the leader in the 2004 elections to the European Parliament, with 25% of the votes. This gives her 15 of 54 seats reserved for Poland in the European Parliament.

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
Paweł Piskorski, politician, ex-mayor of Warsaw
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

External link

Official site

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