Polish Peasant Party

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The Polish People's Party (Polish: Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe, also known in English as Polish Peasant Party) is a political party in Poland. The party's name traces its tradition to an agrarian political party in Austro-Hungarian controlled Galicia, which sent MPs to the parliament in Vienna.

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History

After Poland regained independence with the end of the First World War in 1918, the party merged with agrarian groups from territories previously occupied by Imperial Russia and formed the first PSL led by Wincenty Witos, which was one of the most important political parties in the Second Polish Republic, until it was removed by the Sanacja. During World War II, PSL took part in forming the Polish government in exile and organising. After the war the leader of PSL, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, returned to Soviet occupied Poland, hoping to recreate the party structures and create anti-communist opposition. To prevent that from happening the communists formed a puppet PSL-Piast and, after forging an important referendum, forced the real PSL to unite with it, forming Zjednoczone Stronnictowo Ludowe, a satellite of the communist party.

In 1989 this party took part in forming the first postwar noncommunist government in Poland along with Solidarity and in 1990 it changed its name to PSL. Later however it has repeatedly entered coalition with the postcommunist Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej.

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Present day PSL

In the last parliamentary elections the party received 7% of votes giving it 25 seats in the Sejm and 2 seats in the Senate. In the 2001 parliamentary elections PSL received 9% of votes and formed a coalition with Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, which later broke. After this parting, PSL moved towards more centrist policies. The party ran in the 2004 European Parliament election as part of the European People's Party and received 6% of votes, which gave it 4 of 54 Polish seats in the European Parliament.

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Leaders

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Members of Polish Parliament (Sejm) (2001-2005)

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Former MPs from PSL

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Members of Polish Senate

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Members of European Parliament

PSL is a member party of the European People's Party, however three of its four MEPs have switched their parliamentary group to Union for a Europe of Nations in December 2005. This move is not accepted by the party's general committee.

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PSL MEP in the EPP-ED group

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PSL MEPs in the UEN group

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