UPR was founded in 1987 as the
classic liberal Real Politics Movement by
Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who later became its long-term leader. In the 1990s and 2000s, UPR consistently had the support of 1–2% of voters in general elections, too low to receive public funding under Polish electoral law. As a consequence, it has faced prolonged financial difficulties since its inception. In the 1991 legislative election, the party won 3 seats. In the
parliamentary election in 2001, the UPR candidates started from lists of
Civic Platform to Sejm. To the Senate both parties joined centre-right coalition
Senate 2001 with other post-Solidarity parties. UPRs candidates commenced their political campaign from its short-lived satellite party ''Janusz Korwin-Mikke's Platform'' ("Platforma Janusza Korwin-Mikke"). The PJKM also did not manage to cross the required 5% threshold in the 2005 parliamentary elections (it got only 1.57%). In the
parliamentary election in 2007, the UPR candidates campaigned in cooperation with the
League of Polish Families but did not enter into a formal coalition. The list on which both the UPR and the League appeared saw the UPR get 1.5% votes. This was insufficient to get any of their candidates into the lower house ("Sejm") and therefore the UPR remains unable to obtain public funding. In October 2009,
Janusz Korwin-Mikke left the party and its another former chairman,
Stanisław Michalkiewicz, resigned from his honorary membership. In the following years, party became more
nationalist. In the 2011 elections,
Stanisław Żółtek (along with
pro Korwin-Mikke faction) took part in the foundation of
Congress of the New Right, which was led by the former chairman of the UPR
Janusz Korwin-Mikke. In the 2012, UPR (along with the
All-Polish Youth and
National Radical Camp) formed
far-right political alliance
National Movement, which merged into the political party in the 2014. UPR cooperated with
National Movement in the
European Parliament election in 2014,
Polish local elections in 2014 and the
presidential election in 2015. In the
Polish parliamentary election in 2015, the whole
National Movement stand for the Sejm from the lists of
Kukiz'15. At the end of 2015, UPR leader Bartosz Józwiak left
National Movement which ended the partnership between these parties. In the 2019 election, UPR left
Kukiz'15, because it did not want to join the
coalition with
Polish People's Party. It created its own parliamentary group which consisted of four members that existed till the end of the 8th
Sejm. Some of UPR associated members were candidates of
Law and Justice party in
2019 election. On 21 February 2020, UPR joined
European Christian Political Party. In March, UPR declared willingness to cooperate with
Agreement party. In the second round of
2020 presidential election, UPR supported
Andrzej Duda,;the party did not support any of the candidates before the first round. ==Leadership==