Left and Democrats

Left and Democrats (Polish Lewica i Demokraci, short LiD ) was a political alliance of social democratic left and liberal parties in Poland. It was formed at the local elections of 2006.

The Alliance had a left-liberal and social democratic character and consisted of the merger of the parties Social Democracy of Poland ( short SdPL ), partia Demokratyczna (short- PD), the Democratic Left Alliance (abbreviated SLD) and the Unia Pracy (short UP), which officially launched on September 3 was completed in Warsaw in 2006.

Chairman and top candidate was initially the former President Aleksander Kwasniewski. After the election, this retired from active politics. His successor as leader of the Alliance was the then Chairman of the SLD Wojciech Olejniczak, who also took over the chairmanship of the Group of the Alliance later in the Sejm.

With the election program Polska Przyjazna i Nowoczesna ( "Friendly and modern Poland " ) joined the LiD on the parliamentary elections in Poland in 2007 and reached 13.15 percent of the votes, which in comparison to the vote total of the alliance forming parties in the 2005 elections (SLD 11, 31 % SDPL and UP 3.89% 2.45% = 17.65% PD ) represented a loss of 4.5 percentage points. LiD was still the third strongest force behind PO ( 41.51 %) and PiS ( 32.11 %), but most of PSL ( 8,91 % ) and the Election Committee German minority ( 0.2%).

In 2008, the alliance was dissolved.

Democratic Left Alliance (SLD ) | Social Democracy of Poland ( SDPL ) | Union of Labour ( UP) | Democratic Party - demokraten.pl (PD )

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