Confederation Liberty and Independence

Two political parties, KORWiN and National Movement, announced in late 2018 that they had decided to run together in the 2019 European Parliament election in Poland. In early 2019, Grzegorz Braun's organization and Piotr Krzysztof Liroy-Marzec's party joined the coalition. Kaja Godek, an ultraconservative activist, announced that she would join the list. The coalition was initially dubbed the Pro-Polish Coalition. By late February 2019, it was changed to Konfederacja Korwin Braun Liroy Narodowcy. In March 2019, an application was submitted to register the party under that name, and the Federation for the Republic of Poland soon joined the alliance, including some representatives. Its name was changed again, this time to Confederation. In April the Party of Drivers joined the coalition, which soon afterward elected Marek Jakubiak as its chairman. The Confederation placed fourth in the 2019 European Parliament election, winning 4.55% of the popular vote, although it did not reach the electoral threshold. After the election, Braun applied for the registration of the Confederation of the Polish Crown. The coalition was registered on 25 July 2019 under the name Confederation Liberty and Independence. Godek left the coalition soon after. Shortly before the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, a schism occurred in the coalition, with many representatives joining the coalition while some of them also left. The coalition ended up winning 6.81% of the popular vote and won 11 seats in the Sejm. Most of the support the party received was in southeast and northern parts of Poland. Around 20% of all young voters aged under-30 supported the grouping, about two-thirds of its voters were male, and more than three-fifths lived in smaller towns and rural areas. This has been highlighted as a significant change from previous right-wing alliances involving Korwin-Mikke where the base of support was almost exclusively young males. In November 2019, they presented nine candidates that took part in the 2019–20 Confederation presidential primary. The winner of the presidential primary was Krzysztof Bosak, who became the coalition candidate for the 2020 Polish presidential election. During the first round of the election, Bosak received 1,317,380 votes or 6.78%, coming fourth among eleven candidates. In 2022, serious internal splits emerged as a result of Janusz Korwin-Mikke's pro-Russian and Ukrainophobic stances in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, causing several members to renounce their KORWiN memberships, albeit remaining within the coalition. Ahead of the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, they were considered possible kingmakers. Bosak, one of Confederation's leaders, said: "Confederation has no intention of prolonging PiS's power or facilitating Tusk's return to power. The majority of our voters do not want this." Korwin-Mikke, a former member of the European Parliament who ran for the party from the Warsaw region in 2023, has a history of sexist statements about women. Ryszard Zajączkowski, a university professor and one of the coalition's candidates, said that Poles were subjected to what he described as genocide "at the hands of Jews working together with communists" after World War II, and said that communism is worse than fascism. He said: "Compared to which the Auschwitz camp could be called a holiday camp." In the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, the Confederation ended up winning 7.16% of the popular vote and won 18 seats in the Sejm. On April 21, 2024, in the second round of the presidential elections in Bełchatów, , a member of New Hope, was elected, becoming the party's first city president. In August 2024, the Council of Leaders declared Sławomir Mentzen as the formation's candidate in the upcoming 2025 presidential election, who became the first major politician to start his presidential campaign. Despite this decision, on 15 January 2025, Grzegorz Braun, leader of the affiliate party, announced his intent to also run in the election, confirming previous speculations. As a result, Braun was expelled from the KWiN on 17 January. Janusz Korwin-Mikke, founder and former member of the KWiN, has expressed support for Braun's candidacy. On 8 March 2025, party congress, which convenes once every five years, elected new Council of Leaders excluding foregoing representatives from Braun's party Włodzimierz Skalik and Robert Iwaszkiewicz, which were also expelled from the KWiN earlier that week. On 10 March, Braun's party MPs Skalik and Roman Fritz decided to leave the Confederation parliamentary group, which now counts 16 members. == Ideology and position ==

Confederation Liberty and Independence is positioned on the far right on the political spectrum. It is also considered to be a part of the radical right. Its ideology includes support for numerous right-wing populist ideas. It has presented a hardline opposition stance to the European Union, and has criticized its and Law and Justice's policies towards immigration, calling for harder stances against legal immigration instead. It is also socially conservative, and anti-feminist, it also supports total ban on abortion, and supports the traditional family model. It has also expressed xenophobic views, and has openly provided support for antisemitism. When it first ran in the 2019 European Parliament election, Sławomir Mentzen said: "We don't want Jews, homosexuals, abortion, taxes and the European Union." Unlike the Law and Justice, its economic position is orientated towards economic liberalism, and it is considered strongly pro-free market. It is Polish nationalist, and has also been described as national-liberal. In its program, they have stated their goal "to turn Poland into a ethnocracy and culturally homogenous nation built around traditionalist-Catholic principles". It is strongly critical of the European Union, arguing that Poland “has been harassed by EU bureaucrats" and that the EU forces an agenda detrimental to Poland in climate, agriculture, and migration policies. The party calls for national independence and self-sufficiency in foreign matters, criticizing Polish dependency on NATO. Confederation stated that Ukraine is a source of “unfair competition” for Poland, and advocates stricter border security, opposing immigration from Ukraine as well as other countries outside of the European Union. Platform Confederation's platform includes the following promises, as well as others: • Taxation • Eliminate income tax • Make social insurance contributions optional • Reduce gasoline taxes • Reduce government spending • Judicial • Hire more judges' assistants • Restore capital punishment • Education • Create a school voucher program • Allow parents to opt-out their children from sex-education classes • Create a cultural voucher that can be used on arts or museums • National security • Allow licensed civilians to own firearms • Allow the use of nuclear energy • Oppose the European Union's refugee resettlement program • Oppose increases in immigration • Require immigrants to integrate into Polish culture • Health • Ban importation of garbage • Oppose the European Union's climate change rules • Restrict access to abortion • Business • Abolish penalties for street trade and raise the limits on unlicensed trade. • Raise the VAT exemption to 400,000zł • Index the tax exempt threshold to approximately twelve times the minimum wage • Allow businesses to refuse services on moral grounds == Composition ==

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