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Liberal Democratic Congress Kongres Liberalno Demokratyczny | |
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| Leader | Janusz Lewandowski (first) Donald Tusk (last) |
| Founders | Andrzej Voigt Donald Tusk Janusz Lewandowski |
| Founded | 29 June 1990 |
| Dissolved | 23 April 1994 |
| Split from | Solidarity Citizens' Committee |
| Merged into | Freedom Union |
| Ideology | Neoliberalism[1] Conservative liberalism[2] Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-right[3] |
| National affiliation | Centre Agreement (until 1991) |
| European affiliation | European Democrat Union |
The Liberal Democratic Congress (Polish: Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny, KLD) was a conservative-liberal political party in Poland.[4] The party, led by Donald Tusk, had roots in the Solidarity movement. It advocated free market economy, individual liberty, European integration in the form of European Union membership, and rapid privatisation of the enterprises still owned by the Polish state and decentralisation of the government.
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- Rae, Gavin (2008). Poland's Return to Capitalism: From the Socialist Bloc to the European Union. I.B. Tauris. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-84511-474-9.
Liberal-Democratic Congress (KLD). The party developed in a neoliberal direction, which was underlined when Leszek Balcerowicz became its leader in 1995.
- Avdeyeva, Olga A. (2015). Defending Women's Rights in Europe: Gender Equality and EU Enlargement. State University of New York Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-4384-5591-4.
A group of liberal democratic parties advocated individual rights and neoliberal reforms (Democratic Union and the Liberal Democratic Congress), the social democratic left supported civic and socioeconomic rights (Democratic Left Alliance and the Labor Union), and the conservative-nationalist right advocated socioeconomic rights, but demanded the primacy of the family and the nation over the individual (e.g., the Christian-National Union) (Stanley 2011).
- Rae, Gavin (2008). Poland's Return to Capitalism: From the Socialist Bloc to the European Union. I.B. Tauris. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-84511-474-9.
- ^ "Growing Popularity of Liberal-Democratic Congress" (PDF). JPRS Report: East Europe. Foreign Broadcast Information Service: 15. 14 June 1991.
The KLD is already preparing for the election, although the lack of an electoral law makes precise actions impossible. We prefer alliances of electoral blocs or certain integrating movements in the direction of creating larger political organizations, for example, a broadly conceived liberal-conservative bloc.
- ^ Cornwell, John (5 May 2014). "Women Come to Power in the Vatican". Newsweek.
She managed to bring together a parliamentary victory with a shaky coalition of her own Democratic Union, the Catholic Christian National Union, and the centre-right Liberal Democratic Congress.
- ^ Jerzy Szacki (1994). Liberalism After Communism. Central European University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-85866-016-5.