Platforma Obywatelska
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:
Leaders
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
- Łukasz Abgarowicz, Płock
- Dariusz Jacek Bachalski, Zielona Góra
- Jerzy Budnik, Gdynia
- Zbigniew Chlebowski, Wałbrzych
- Andrzej Czerwiński, Nowy Sącz
- Grzegorz Dolniak, Sosnowiec
- Mirosław Drzewiecki, Łódź
- Jarosław Duda, Wrocław
- Waldy Dzikowski, Poznań
- Marta Fogler, Warszawa
- Andrzej Gałażewski, Gliwice
- Zyta Gilowska, Lublin
- Stanisław Gorczyca, Elbląg
- Cezary Grabarczyk, Sieradz
- Aleksander Grad, Tarnów
- Paweł Graś, Chrzanów
- Jerzy Hertel, Warszawa
- Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz, Opole
- Bronisław Komorowski, Warszawa
- Ewa Kopacz, Radom
- Leszek Korzeniowski, Opole
- Józef Krzyworzeka, Kraków
- Elżbieta Łukacijewska, Krosno
- Tadeusz Maćkała, Legnica
- Edward Maniura, Częstochowa
- Andrzej Markowiak, Rybnik
- Piotr Mateja, Katowice
- Konstanty Miodowicz, Kielce
- Sławomir Nowak, Gdańsk
- Alicja Olechowska, Warszawa
- Tadeusz Parchański, Nowy Sącz
- Teresa Piotrowska, Bydgoszcz
- Kazimierz Plocke, Gdynia
- Edward Płonka, Bielsko-Biała
- Elżbieta Radziszewska, Piotrków Trybunalski
- Jan Rokita, Kraków
- Sławomir Rybicki, Toruń
- Jan Rzymełka, Katowice
- Leszek Samborski, Warszawa
- Grzegorz Schetyna, Wrocław
- Krystyna Skowrońska, Rzeszów
- Michał Stuligrosz, Poznań
- Tomasz Szczypiński, Kraków
- Adam Szejnfeld, Piła
- Krystyna Szumilas, Gliwice
- Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska, Łódź
- Jan Tomaka, Rzeszów
- Tomasz Tomczykiewicz, Bielsko-Biała
- Donald Tusk, Gdynia
- Eugeniusz Wycisło, Rybnik
- Rafał Zagórny, Katowice
- Krzysztof Zaremba, Szczecin
- Bogdan Zdrojewski, Wrocław
- Stanisław Żmijan, Chełm
- Marek Żyliński, Olsztyn
Citizens Platform Electoral Committee
The Citizens Platform electoral committee consisted of several political parties and groups (Platforma Obywatelska RP being the largest)
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
