Poland Comes First
Polska jest Najważniejsza ( German "Poland is the most important thing ," short PJN ) is a conservative political party in Poland. It was on 16 November 2010 as a spin-off of the right-wing Law and Justice ( PiS) established (initially as a club, on 12 December 2010 as the party). After its creation, it was with several ( 14-18, last 15) deputies in the Sejm and represented in the Polish Senate, who had converted from the PiS. In the parliamentary elections of 2011, however, the PJN failed at the five percent hurdle. Furthermore, it provides three deputies in the European Parliament.
The establishment of the PJN were intra-party conflicts in the PiS preceded after the presidential election in Poland in 2010, where a group of party members the chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused too hard a shift to the right. After then several members had been expelled from the party, the Sejm Deputies Joanna Kluzik - Rostkowska, Elżbieta Jakubiak and Paweł Poncyljusz and the MEP Adam Bielan, Michal Kaminski, Paweł Kowal and Marek Migalski founded the new party PJN. The party name goes back to the official campaign slogan Kaczyński in the presidential election of 2010. A modification of the name was not excluded. Preliminary party chairman was Joanna Kluzik - Rostkowska.
On 18 January 2011 joined with the Senator Jacek Swakoń the first time a politician of the party at, who had not the PiS, but the liberal-conservative Civic Platform (PO ) belongs.
In the European Parliament the PJN members initially remained in the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), who also belongs to the PiS and the Michał Kaminski was Group Chairman. However, he announced in late January 2011 his resignation from this post so as not to bear the intra- Polish conflict in the European Parliament. He was succeeded on March 9, 2011, the Czech Jan Zahradil.
On June 4, 2011, the first congress of the party took place. On it, Joanna Kluzik - Rostkowska not stepped up to the election, instead of their Paweł Kowal was elected chairman. On June 10, Paweł Poncyljusz and Marek Migalski were elected as their representatives. On June 13, Joanna Kluzik - Rostkowska left the party and announced to compete in the elections in the fall of 2011 for the PO of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. On July 8, Wojciech Mojzesowicz was elected as the next Vice-Chairman. In the election on 9 October, the party finally reached 2.19 percent of the vote to win a seat in the Sejm not yet in the Senate.