Centre Agreement – Polish Union

Centre Agreement – Polish Union

*Porozumienie Centrum - Zjednoczenie Polskie* (Polish)
Centre Agreement – Polish Union Porozumienie Centrum - Zjednoczenie Polskie (Polish)
Founded	19 June 1993
Dissolved	20 September 1993
Ideology	Christian democracy; Conservatism; Anti-communism
Political position	Center-right
Members	Centre Agreement; Third Republic Movement; Christian-Democratic Labour Faction; Party of Fidelity to the Republic; Regional Agreement RdR;
Colours	Red
Slogan	Poland! Time for change.; (Polish: Polsko! Czas na zmiany.)
	Politics of Poland; Political parties; Elections;

The Centre Agreement – Polish Union (Polish: Porozumienie Centrum – Zjednoczenie Polskie, PC-ZP) was a Christian-democratic electoral alliance in Poland. It united the Centre Agreement (PC), Third Republic Movement (RTR), Christian-Democratic Labour Faction (ChDSP), Party of Fidelity to the Republic (SWR-KSN) (a Confederation of Independent Poland splinter)^[2] and Regional Agreement RdR.^[3]

History

The PC-ZP coalition was founded on 19 June 1993 during failed negotiations with the Movement for the Republic (RdR), which later formed its own coalition, the Coalition for the Republic (KdR). The two coalitions competed for the same group of voters, and remained divided largely due to "personal issues", such as foreseen allocation of cabinet positions, candidate placement on electoral lists and personal rivalry between PC leader Jarosław Kaczyński and RdR leader Jan Olszewski. It also failed, like KdR, to unite the Polish People's Party – Peasants' Agreement (PSL-PL) under its flag.

The coalition ran a similar campaign to that of KdR, being in support of lustration and in opposition to the neocommunist party (Democratic Left Alliance, SLD) and liberal parties (Democratic Union, UD, Liberal Democratic Congress, KLD).

In the 1993 Polish parliamentary election, the only election the coalition contested in, it registered as a party, and thus only needed 5% of valid votes to pass the electoral threshold (as opposed to 8% needed for registered coalitions), which it failed to cross regardless, gathering only 4.42% of valid votes.

Election results

Sejm

Election	Votes	%	Seats	Status
1993	609,973	4.42 (#9)	0 / 460	Extra-parliamentary

Senate

Election	Votes	%	Seats
1993	607,624	2.23 (#11)	1 / 460

References

^ ^a ^b Łopata, Maryan (25 October 2017). "Preferencje polityczne w wyborach do Sejmu w Małopolsce i na Podkarpaciu na tle porównawczym". Humanitarian Vision (in Polish). Lviv Politechnic Publishing House.
^ "Stronnictwo Wierności Rzeczypospolitej-Kongres Solidarności Narodu". Retrieved 2024-03-31.
^ Millard, Frances (1994-09-01). "The Polish Parliamentary Election of September, 1993". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 27 (3): 295–313. doi:10.1016/0967-067X(94)90016-7. JSTOR 45301898. Retrieved 2024-03-31.

[lpnu-1] Łopata, Maryan (25 October 2017). "Preferencje polityczne w wyborach do Sejmu w Małopolsce i na Podkarpaciu na tle porównawczym". Humanitarian Vision (in Polish). Lviv Politechnic Publishing House.

[2] "Stronnictwo Wierności Rzeczypospolitej-Kongres Solidarności Narodu". Retrieved 2024-03-31.

[3] Millard, Frances (1994-09-01). "The Polish Parliamentary Election of September, 1993". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 27 (3): 295–313. doi:10.1016/0967-067X(94)90016-7. JSTOR 45301898. Retrieved 2024-03-31.

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