Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc
Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) (PiS) is a Polish central-right political party, established in 2001, by the Kaczyński brothers: Lech, the former justice minister and the current mayor of the capital, Warsaw, and Jarosław, who is the President of the party. A large proportion of party members came from the now defunct AWS party. In the 2001 elections PiS gained 44 (of 460) seats in the lower chamber of the Polish Parlaiment (Sejm) with 9.5% votes. The latest (May 2004) public opinion polls show that PiS is supported by approximately 15% of voters, making it the third leading political power. It is speculated that after the forthcoming elections PiS might come into a coalition with Platforma Obywatelska to form the future government.
In the 2004 European Parliamentry elections, the party came in third, receiving 13% of votes and 7 of 54 seats reserved for Poland in the European Parliament, as part of the Union for a Europe of Nations.
Political program
PiS postulates a better public safety, reforming of the legal system to effectively fight the crime and stamping out corruption. It supports Poland's European Union membership but is somewhat sceptical towards current developments.
Leaders
Members of Polish Parliament (Sejm)
MP, constituency
- Anna Borucka-Cieślewicz, Poznań, from 2004
- Wojciech Borzuchowski, Białystok
- Tadeusz Cymański, Gdańsk
- Andrzej Diakonow, Opole
- Ludwik Dorn, Warszawa
- Jacek Falfus, Bielsko-Biała
- Józef Fortuna, Chrzanów
- Szymon Giżyński, Częstochowa
- Przemysław Gosiewski, Kielce
- Wojciech Jasiński, Płock
- Marek Jurek, Rzeszów
- Jarosław Kaczyński, Warszawa
- Mariusz Kamiński, Warszawa
- Elżbieta Kruk, Lublin
- Piotr Krzywicki, Sieradz
- Marek Kuchciński, Krosno
- Adam Lipiński, Legnica
- Andrzej Liss, Gdańsk
- Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Zielona Góra
- Barbara Marianowska, Tarnów
- Tomasz Markowski, Bydgoszcz
- Antoni Mężydło, Toruń
- Hanna Mierzejewska, Warszawa
- Marek Muszyński, Wrocław
- Maria Nowak, Katowice
- Ryszard Nowak, Nowy Sącz
- Bolesław Piecha, Rybnik
- Marian Piłka, Siedlce
- Jerzy Polaczek, Katowice
- Paweł Poncyljusz, Warszawa
- Jacek Sauk, Szczecin
- Małgorzata Stryjska, Poznań
- Marek Suski, Radom
- Wojciech Szarama, Gliwice
- Aleksander Szczygło, Olsztyn
- Jolanta Szczypińska, Gdynia
- Bartłomiej Szrajber, Warszawa
- Kazimierz Ujazdowski, Wrocław
- Zbigniew Wassermann, Kraków
- Elżbieta Więcławska-Sauk, Łódź
- Artur Zawisza, Warszawa
- Jarosław Zieliński, Białystok
- Zbigniew Ziobro, Kraków
- Adam Bielan, politician
- Anna Fotyga, international trade expert, vicepresident-mayor of Gdansk 2002-2004
- Mieczysław Janowski, doctor of technical sciences, local activist
- Michał Kamiński, journalist and politician
- Marcin Libicki, arts historian and politician
- Wojciech Roszkowski historian, professor of politics
- Konrad Szymański, lawyer, journalist and politician
The PiS MEPs belong to the Union for a Europe of Nations caucus.
