Free and Solidary
Free and Solidary (Polish: Wolni i Solidarni, WiS) is a small political party in Poland. Founder Kornel Morawiecki, the Senior Marshal of the Sejm, led the party until his death in 2019. MPs of the party were elected from the lists of Kukiz'15.
Free and Solidary Wolni i Solidarni | |
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| Leader | vacant |
| Founded | November 2016 |
| Split from | Kukiz'15 |
| Ideology | Solidarism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Economic: Center-left Social: Right-wing |
| National affiliation | United Right |
| Colors | Red |
| Sejm | 0 / 460 |
| Senate | 0 / 100 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 51 |
| Website | |
| wolniisolidarni | |
The party formally declared support for the economic and social policy of the Law and Justice (PiS) governments led by Prime Minister Beata Szydło and, later, her successor, Mateusz Morawiecki.
In December 2018, then-WiS Sejm Deputy Ireneusz Zyska crossed the floor to join the Law and Justice parliamentary club, followed by Adam Andruszkiewicz when he became Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs in Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki. On April 3, 2019, Sylwester Chruszcz also left WiS to join PiS.
During the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, it was announced that all three incumbent WiS deputies are seeking election on the PiS lists, with then-WiS leader Kornel Morawiecki standing as a candidate for the Senate in Constituency № 59 (Białystok), while Jarosław Porwich (#15 on the PiS list in Constituency № 8 (Zielona Góra)) and Małgorzata Zwiercan (#5 on the PiS list in Constituency № 26 (Słupsk)) are seeking re-election to the Sejm. However, all three remained as members of the WiS parliamentary club and have not joined the PiS group in the Sejm. With the passing of Morawiecki, he was replaced as the candidate for the Senate in Constituency № 59 by a member of Law and Justice, and the party no longer has any registered party members standing for election on the PiS electoral committee lists.
While the party's entire parliamentary club sought election on PiS list, four party members are candidates for Piotr Liroy-Marzec's "Effective" political party electoral committee (Polish: Skuteczni Piotra Liroya-Marca) in Constituency № 35 (Olsztyn).
