Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej (kɔnfɛdɛˈratsja ˈpɔlskʲi ɲɛpɔˈdlɛɡwɛj, KPN, Polish

Polish language

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 for: Confederation of Independent Poland) was a political party

Political party

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 founded on 1 September 1979 by Leszek Moczulski

Leszek Moczulski

Leszek Moczulski is a Polish historian and politician, a member of various organizations opposing the communist regime in the People's Republic of Poland and the co-founder of the first non-communist and not-underground political party in the Eastern Bloc....

 and others declaring support for the pre-war traditions of Sanacja

Sanacja

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 and Józef Piłsudski. It was the first independent political party that was publicly proclaimed in the Eastern Bloc

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, it was however unrecognized by the People's Republic of Poland

People's Republic of Poland

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 government and its chief activists were arrested several times. It didn't participate in the Polish Roundtable Negotiations.

After the fall of communism, Leszek Moczulski was a candidate in the elections for Polish president, but got only 2.5% of votes in the Polish presidential election, 1990

Polish presidential election, 1990

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 and withdrew during the following one. In the Polish parliamentary election, 1991

Polish parliamentary election, 1991

The Polish parliamentary election in 1991 to the Sejm and the Senate of Poland was held on October 27. In the Sejm elections, 27,517,280 citizens were eligible to vote, 11,887,949 of them cast their votes, 11,218,602 of those were counted as valid. In the Senate elections, 43.2% of citizens cast...

 the party got 7.5% of the vote, while in the Polish parliamentary election, 1993

Polish parliamentary election, 1993

Polish parliamentary election in 1993 to Sejm and Senate of Poland was held on the 19 September. In Sejm elections, 52.13% of citizens cast their votes, and 95.7% of those were counted as valid. In Senate elections, 52.1% of citizens cast their votes, and 97.07% were valid...

 it received 5.7%. In 1996 it suffered a split, with the Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej - Ojczyzna faction under Adam Słomka leaving KPN. KPN then joined Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność, but left it in 1997, before the Polish parliamentary election, 1997

Polish parliamentary election, 1997

The Polish parliamentary election in 1997 to the Sejm and Senate of Poland was held on the 21 September. In the Sejm elections, 47.93% of citizens cast their votes, 96.12% of which were counted as valid...

, in which it didn't participate. For the 2001 parliamentary elections, it allied itself with Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność Prawicy, but its candidates got 0.08% and the AWSP (which got 5.6%) failed to elect a single representative (the threshold was 8%). In 2004 Leszek Moczulski dissolved KPN, while Słomka declared his KPN-O the main KPN and gathered some members of the now-disbanded Moczulski's KPN. The party was recently officially re-registered with the Polish authorities and took part in the 2009 EU elections.

See also

• Solidarity
• Federation of Fighting Youth
  Federation of Fighting Youth
  The Federation of Fighting Youth was a radical anticommunist organization of Polish youth, existing in the mid and late 1980s. It was founded in June 1984 in Warsaw's district of Grochów by a group of high school students....