Partie polskiej lewicy w wyborach do Parlamentu Europejskiego

• Authors: Waldemar Wojtasik

Abstracts

EN

The Polish left-wing parties treated the election to the European Parliament in 2009 as a perfect opportunity to overcome their political marginalisation which affected them after the first European elections in 2004. The above mentioned process once again proved to be true in the next two subsequent elections to the Polish parliament in which the left - wing parties suffered defeat. The parties which played the main role in the talks concerning the coalition and participated later on in governing the country were the post-Solidarity parties: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość and Platforma Obywatelska. The petrification of the party system, resulting in the structuralization of the parliamentary scene, was for the Left a real threat, especially because of the positioning mechanism which benefits the largest parties the most. The results of the Left should be seen as a disappointment. The parties representing it did not actually even try to break through the domination of the Right and were no able to create any kind of foundations on which they could build their future success. The reason for that should be seen in the lack of positioning policy of the parties’ offer on the political market, the inability of generating a common and coherent formula of political activity, as well as the lack of political leadership and the inner struggle between different fractions in the largest party on this side of the political scene.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologiczne
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 23
• Pages: 69-82

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Waldemar Wojtasik

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/athena.2010.23.04

Biblioteka Nauki

2168278