National Party of Retirees and Pensioners
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National Party of Retirees and Pensioners is a Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 minor left-wing political party.

The main goal of KPEiR is protecting retired seniors, pensioners and trust-busting.

The current leader (Prezes, President in English
English language
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) is former Sejm
Sejm
The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

 Member Tomasz Mamiński
Tomasz Maminski
Tomasz Mamiński is a Polish politician, a leader of the National Party of Retirees and Pensioners and former Sejm Member. He is a former deputy head of the Federated Parliamentary Club.- References :...

.

KPEiR was founded in 1994. However, party lost the parliamentary election in 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...

 winning just 284 826 votes (2.18%) and no seat in Sejm
Sejm
The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

 and Senate.

During municipal elections of 1998 KPEiR, allied with Democratic Left Alliance
Democratic Left Alliance
Democratic Left Alliance is a social-democratic political party in Poland. Formed in 1991 as a coalition of centre-left parties, it was formally established as a single party on 15 April 1999. It is currently the third largest opposition party in Poland....

 (SLD), Polish People's Party (PSL) and Labor Union (UP)won some seats.

During 2001 parliamentary election KPEiR run in coalition with SLD, UP and Democratic Party
Democratic Party (Poland)
The Democratic Party is a Polish centrist party. The party faced a revival in 2009, when it was joined by liberal politician Paweł Piskorski, formerly member of Civic Platform.-History:The party was established on April 15, 1939...

. Coalition won the election in landslide and SLD/UP formed government together with PSL. Tomasz Mamiński
Tomasz Maminski
Tomasz Mamiński is a Polish politician, a leader of the National Party of Retirees and Pensioners and former Sejm Member. He is a former deputy head of the Federated Parliamentary Club.- References :...

, party leader, had won a Sejm seat in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

.

However, Mamiński was expelled from Parliamentary club of SLD after scandal in Sejm restaurant. Then he joined Federacyjny Klub Parlamentarny
Federacyjny Klub Parlamentarny
The Federated Parliamentary Club was a parliamentary faction in Polish Sejm consisting of the People's Democratic Party and Krajowa Partia Emerytów i Rencistów and former members of Polish People's Party, Democratic Left Alliance and Samoobrona.After the FKP was dissolved in 2005, most of its...

, which included various Sejm members from various parties.

Party didn't run in 2005 and 2007 parliamentary election and didn't endorsed any other list. Their future is unclear.
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