Civic Platform

The Civic Platform was founded in 2001 as economically liberal, Christian-democratic split from existing parties. Founders Andrzej Olechowski, Maciej Płażyński, and Donald Tusk were sometimes jokingly called "the Three Tenors" by Polish media and commentators. Olechowski and Płażyński left the party during the 2001–2005 parliamentary term, leaving Tusk as the sole remaining founder, and current party leader.

In the 2001 general election, the party secured 12.6% of the vote and 65 deputies in the Sejm, making it the largest opposition party to the government led by the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). In the 2002 local elections, PO stood together with Law and Justice in 15 voivodeships (in 14 as POPiS, in Podkarpacie with another centre-right political parties). They stood separately only in Mazovia.

The POPiS coalition won 12% of the popular vote nationally, which was well below the expectations. Ludwik Dorn, the chairman of the PiS parliamentary club at the time, remarked: "Together, we gained as much as the PO itself collected a year earlier." This marked the point at which PO and PiS, until now ideological and political allies, started to grow apart. The leadership of PiS decided that it had to distance itself from PO and change its ideology in order to increase its popular support.{{cite journal |title=The Process of Acquiring Political Relevance of Law and Justice Elections |first=Michał |last=Budny |publisher=Institute of Local Initiatives |journal=Political Preferences |year=2022 |volume=30 |issue=2 |doi=10.31261/polpre.2022.2.45-59 |page=50|doi-access=free }}

In 2005, PO led all opinion polls with 26% to 30% of public support. However, in the 2005 general election, in which it was led by Jan Rokita, PO polled only 24.1% and unexpectedly came second to the 27% garnered by Law and Justice (PiS). A centre-right coalition of PO and PiS (nicknamed POPiS) was deemed most likely to form a government after the election. Yet the putative coalition parties had a falling out in the wake of the fiercely contested Polish presidential election of 2005.

In the 2005 elections, PiS attacked PO by campaigning on a difference between "liberal Poland" and its "social Poland". The former was marked by economic liberalism, austerity, deregulation and "serving the rich". In contrast, Law and Justice stressed its "social" character, pledging policies that would help the poor. The party attacked Civic Platform's flat tax proposal and advocated a much more active role of the state in the economy. Law and Justice also made "an offer to the left", stressing its economically left-wing policies.{{cite journal |journal=Electoral Studies |volume=26 |year=2007 |title=The 2005 parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland |first=Frances |last=Millard |publisher=University of Essex |location=Colchester |page=213|doi=10.1016/j.electstud.2006.03.001 }}

Ultimately, Lech Kaczyński (PiS) won the second round of the presidential election on 23 October 2005 with 54% of the vote, ahead of Tusk, the PO candidate. Due to the demands of PiS for control of all the armed ministries (the Defence Ministry, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the office of the Prime Minister, PO and PiS were unable to form a coalition. Instead, PiS formed a coalition government with the support of the League of Polish Families (LPR) and Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SRP). PO became the opposition to this PiS-led coalition government.

The PiS-led coalition fell apart in 2007 amid a corruption scandal involving Andrzej Lepper and Tomasz Lipiec{{cite news| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7054912.stm| title = BBC News (2007-10-22): Massive win for Polish opposition| date = 22 October 2007}} and internal leadership disputes. These events led to new elections, and in the 21 October 2007 parliamentary election PO won 41.51% of the popular vote and 209 out of 460 seats in the Sejm and 60 out of 100 seats in the Senate of Poland. Civic Platform, now the largest party in both houses of parliament, subsequently formed a coalition with the Polish People's Party (PSL).

At the 2010 Polish presidential election, following the Smolensk air disaster which killed the incumbent Polish president Lech Kaczyński, Tusk decided not to present his candidature, considered an easy possible victory over PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński. During the PO primary elections, Bronisław Komorowski defeated the Oxford-educated, PiS defector Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski. At the polls, Komorowski defeated Jarosław Kaczyński, ensuring PO dominance over the current Polish political landscape.[http://www.wbj.pl/blog/The_business_of_politics/post-254-civic-platform-almighty.htm Warsaw Business Journal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220053333/http://www.wbj.pl/blog/The_business_of_politics/post-254-civic-platform-almighty.htm |date=20 December 2010 }}

In November 2010, local elections granted Civic Platform about 30.1 percent of the votes and PiS at 23.2 percent, an increase for the former and a drop for the latter compared to the 2006 elections. PO succeeded in winning four consecutive elections (a record in post-Communist Poland), and Tusk remains as kingmaker. PO's dominance is also a reflection of left-wing weakness and divisions on both sides of the political scene, with PiS suffering a splinter in Autumn 2010. Civic Platform won the plurality of votes in the 9 October 2011 parliamentary election, gaining 39.18% of the popular vote, 207 of 460 seats in the Sejm, and 63 out of 100 seats in the Senate.{{cite web|url=http://wybory2011.pkw.gov.pl/wsw/en/000000.html|title=Elections 2011 - Election results|publisher=National Electoral Commission|access-date=20 November 2011}}

In the 2014 European elections, Civic Platform came first place nationally, achieving 32.13% of the vote and returning 19 MEPs.{{cite web |url=http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/pl/ |title=Pkw {{pipe}} Pkw |publisher=Pe2014.pkw.gov.pl |access-date=16 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140824100453/http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/pl/ |archive-date=24 August 2014}} In the 2014 local elections, PO achieved 179 seats, the highest single number.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvn24.pl/r/490976|title=Oficjalne wyniki wyborów samorządowych. Zobacz, kto wygrał|website=TVN24.pl|access-date=16 January 2019}} In the 2015 presidential election, PO endorsed Bronisław Komorowski, a former member of PO from 2001 till 2010. He lost the election receiving 48.5% of the popular vote, while Andrzej Duda won with 51.5%.{{Cite web|url=https://gloswielkopolski.pl/oficjalne-wyniki-wyborow-2015-bronislaw-komorowski-wzial-poznan-i-wielkopolske-infografika/ar/3857949#wybory-prezydenckie-2015|title=Oficjalne wyniki wyborów 2015: Bronisław Komorowski wziął Poznań i Wielkopolskę [INFOGRAFIKA]|last=Jęczmionka|first=Paulina|website=Gloswielkopolski.pl|date=11 May 2015 |language=pl|access-date=16 January 2019}}

In the 2015 parliamentary election, PO came in second place, after PiS, achieving 24.09% of the popular vote, 138 out of 460 seats in the Sejm, and 34 out of 100 seats in the Senate.{{Cite web|url=http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/wybory-parlamentarne-2015-pkw-podala-ostateczne-wyniki/zqe59j|title=Wybory parlamentarne 2015. PKW podała ostateczne wyniki|date=27 October 2015|website=Onet Wiadomości|language=pl|access-date=16 January 2019}} In the 2018 local elections, PO achieved 26.97% of the votes, coming second after PiS.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/wybory-samorzadowe-2018-relacja-na-zywo-i-wyniki-wyborow/dm4sj65|title=Znamy wyniki wyborów! Relacja na żywo. Wybory samorządowe 2018|date=20 October 2018|website=www.fakt.pl|access-date=16 January 2019}} In the 2019 European elections, PO participated in the European Coalition electoral alliance which achieved 38.47%, coming second after PiS.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvn24.pl/r/939086|title=Oficjalne wyniki wyborów do europarlamentu|website=TVN24.pl|access-date=14 August 2019}}

On 1 October 2023, it held The Million Hearts march in Warsaw.{{Cite news |last=Jan Cienski |date=1 October 2023 |title=Huge but glum: Poland's opposition puts a million people on the streets |language=en |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-tusk-million-hearts-civic-coalition-warsaw/ |access-date=16 October 2023}}

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The Civic Platform has been mainly described as a centre-right political party.{{refn|{{cite journal |author1=Sean Hanley |author2=Aleks Szczerbiak |author3=Tim Haughton |author4=Brigid Fowler |year=2008 |title=Sticking Together: Explaining Comparative Centre—Right Party Success in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe |doi=10.1177/1354068808090253 |language=en |journal=Party Politics |volume=14 |issue=4 |issn=1426-8876 |page=436 |s2cid=16727049 |quote="This argument also seems broadly confirmed taking into account more recent developments in Poland where both large newer centre-right parties, Civic Platform and Law and Justice, have developed more complex ideological narratives centring on the nature of post-communist transformation."}}{{cite journal |author1=Anna Pacześniak |author2=Michał Jacuński |author3=Jean-Michel De Waele |year=2012 |title=Ideological Identification of Medium–Level Party Cadres in Poland |doi=10.15804/ppsy2012019 |language=en |journal=Polish Political Science Yearbook |volume=41 |issue=1 |issn=0208-7375 |page=383 |quote="Since 2005 the main political competitors have been two parties with Solidarity roots enjoying the highest electoral support: the right–wing Law and Justice (PiS) and the centre–right Civic Platform (PO)."|doi-access=free }}PO has often been described as centre-right:

• {{cite web|url=https://politicalcritique.org/cee/poland/2017/tusk-vs-kaczynski-explaining-the-conflict/|title=Tusk VS Kaczynski, explaining the conflict.|date=4 May 2017 |access-date=10 June 2023}}
• {{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DQrc_4-H11QC&pg=PA191|author=Nathaniel Copsey|chapter=Poland:An Awkward Partner Redeemed|editor1=Simon Bulmer|editor2=Christian Lequesne|title=The Member States of the European Union|edition=Second|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|page=191|isbn=9780199544837}}
• {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FW5RbXxRMj4C&pg=PA2|author=Aleks Szczerbiak|title=Poland Within the European Union: New awkward partner or new heart of Europe?|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|page=2|isbn=9780415380737}}
• {{cite news|last=Viktor|first=Szary |date=9 September 2014|title=Poland's PM Tusk, heading for Brussels, submits resignation|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-poland-government-resignation-idUKKBN0H41SY20140909|newspaper=Reuters|access-date=7 December 2014}}{{refn|Some sources have described PO as having shifted from the centre-right to the centre.{{cite journal|last=Szczerbiak|first=Aleks|date=30 November 2016|title=An anti-establishment backlash that shook up the party system? The October 2015 Polish parliamentary election|journal=European Politics and Society|volume=18|issue=4|pages=404–427|doi=10.1080/23745118.2016.1256027|s2cid=157951515 |url=http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/63809/1/Polish%20parliamentary%20election%202015%20EPS%20revised.pdf |quote=As discussed below, under Mr Tusk's leadership, Civic Platform turned from being a centre-right liberal-conservative party into an ideologically eclectic centrist grouping...}}}}}} Due to the peculiarity of Polish politics, as a major liberal opponent of the conservative PiS, the party is also classified as centristPO has often been described as centrist:
• {{cite journal|last=Szczerbiak|first=Aleks|date=2017|title=An anti-establishment backlash that shook up the party system? The October 2015 Polish parliamentary election|journal=European Politics and Society|volume=18|issue=4|pages=404–427|doi=10.1080/23745118.2016.1256027|s2cid=157951515|url=http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/63809/1/Polish%20parliamentary%20election%202015%20EPS%20revised.pdf}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Marcinkiewicz|first1=Kamil|last2=Stegmaier|first2=Mary|date=8 January 2016|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290220555|format=PDF|title=The parliamentary election in Poland, October 2015|journal=Electoral Studies|volume=41|pages=221–224|doi=10.1016/j.electstud.2016.01.004}}
• {{cite journal|last=Siemsen|first=Pascal|date=2020|title=Voting PiS: Voting Left when Voting Far-Right Populist?|journal=Polish Political Science Review|volume=8|issue=1|pages=87–99|doi=10.2478/ppsr-2020-0006|doi-access=free}} or centre-left.PO has often been described as centre-left:
• {{cite news|url=https://www.cmi.no/publications/6861-the-perfect-enemy-from-migrants-to-sexual-minorities |title=The perfect enemy: From migrants to sexual minorities |quote=The tactic worked well for the PiS is in 2015 when anti-migrant rhetoric drummed up the party´s support before its election defeat of the governing centre-left Civic Platform. |work=CHR Michelsen Institute |date=2019 |access-date=28 February 2023}}
• {{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/poland-s-ruling-party-picks-lgbtq-rights-election-battlefront-n983681 |title=Poland's ruling party picks LGBTQ rights as election battlefront |quote=The tactic worked for PiS previously, analysts said, noting how in 2015 it used anti-migrant rhetoric to drum up support before its election defeat of the governing center-left Civic Platform. |work=NBC News |date=15 March 2019 |access-date=28 February 2023}}
• {{cite book|editor=Sharon L. Wolchik, Jane Leftwich Curry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V0hQDwAAQBAJ |title=Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy |quote= A movement spearheaded by young people to get out the vote brought the more policy-focused center left Civic Platform to power. |date=2018 |page=234 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781538100899 }} It has also been described as liberal-conservative,{{cite journal |author1=Sean Hanley |author2=Aleks Szczerbiak |author3=Tim Haughton |author4=Brigid Fowler |year=2008 |title=Sticking Together: Explaining Comparative Centre—Right Party Success in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe |doi=10.1177/1354068808090253 |language=en |journal=Party Politics |volume=14 |issue=4 |issn=1426-8876 |page=417 |s2cid=16727049 |quote="Instead, three new centre-right and right-wing parliamentary parties emerged: the liberal-conservative Civic Platform (PO), the national-social conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, and the clerical-nationalist League of Polish Families (LPR)."}}{{cite journal |author1=Tim Bale |author2=Aleks Szczerbiak |year=2008 |title=Why Is There No Christian Democracy in Poland — and Why Should We Care? |doi=10.1177/1354068808090256 |language=en |journal=Party Politics |volume=14 |issue=4 |issn=1460-3683 |page=491 |s2cid=143595310 |url=http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2728 |quote="At root, Civic Platform is a right-wing liberal or liberal-conservative, rather than an archetypal Christian Democratic, party."}}{{bulleted list|{{cite web|url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2084941/wahlkampf-attacken-im-konservativen-lager|language=german|title=Wahlkampf Attacken im konservativen Lager|access-date=29 June 2023}}|{{cite book|author1=Vít Hloušek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K79sdX-amEgC&pg=PA30|title=Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared|author2=Lubomír Kopeček|publisher=Ashgate|year=2010|isbn=978-0-7546-7840-3|page=30|access-date=9 February 2013}}|{{cite journal|last1=Hanley|first1=Seán|last2=Szczerbiak|first2=Aleks|last3=Haughton|first3=Tim|last4=Fowler|first4=Brigid|date=July 2008|title=Explaining Comparative Centre-Right Party Success in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/15030/1/15030.pdf|journal=Party Politics|volume=14|issue=4|pages=407–434|doi=10.1177/1354068808090253|s2cid=16727049}}|{{cite journal|last1=Seleny|first1=Anna|date=July 2007|title=Communism's Many Legacies in East-Central Europe|journal=Journal of Democracy|volume=18|issue=3|pages=156–170|doi=10.1353/jod.2007.0056|s2cid=154971163}}|{{cite book|author=Igor Guardiancich|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5MjBT9lQLwC&pg=PA144|title=Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-0-415-68898-7|page=144}}|{{cite book|author1=Jean-Michel De Waele|title=Europeanisation and Party Politics: How the EU affects Domestic Actors, Patterns and Systems|author2=Anna Pacześniak|publisher=ECPR Press|year=2012|isbn=978-1-907301-84-1|editor=Erol Külahci|page=131|chapter=The Europeanisation of Poland's Political Parties and Party System|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8T9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA131}}|{{cite book|author=Aleks Szczerbiak|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNa6l58HNWoC|title=Post-Communist EU Member States: Parties and Party Systems|publisher=Ashgate|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7546-4712-6|editor=Susanne Jungerstam-Mulders|location=London|page=95|chapter=Power without Love? Patterns of Party Politics in Post-1989 Poland}}}} Christian democratic,{{cite journal |author1=Magdalena M. Molendowska |year=2017 |title=Christian Democracy in Poland (19th–21st Century) |language=en |journal=Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio K – Politologia |volume=24 |issue=1 |doi=10.17951/k.2017.24.1.179 |pages=180–196|s2cid=158351234 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last=Kowalczyk |first=Krzysztof |year=2015 |title=Stanowiska polskich partii politycznych wobec religii i Kościoła. Propozycja typologii |issn=2353-9747 |journal=Studia Politicae Universitatis Silesiensis |volume=15 |issue=1 |publisher=University of Silesia in Katowice |language=pl |page=250 |quote="When it was established in 2001, the Civic Platform (PO) referred to liberal and conservative values. In its ideological declaration, Christian values were recognised as one of the canons."}}{{cite book|author=José Magone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g73UtvxJsFcC&pg=PA457|title=Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Introduction|publisher=Routledge|year=2010|isbn=978-0-203-84639-1|page=457|access-date=19 July 2013}}{{Cite web|date=26 May 2019|title=Poland's PiS smashes opposition in European election vote|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-law-and-justice-pis-jaroslaw-kaczynski-wins-european-election/|access-date=27 December 2021|website=POLITICO|language=en-US}} conservative,{{cite book|author=Marjorie Castle|title=Politics in Europe|publisher=CQ Press|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4833-2305-3|editor1=M. Donald Hancock|page=636|chapter=Poland|editor2=Christopher J. Carman|editor3=Marjorie Castle|editor4=David P. Conradt|editor5=Raffaella Y. Nanetti|editor6=Robert Leonardi|editor7=William Safran|editor8=Stephen White|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KmAXBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA636}} conservative-liberal,{{cite news|url=https://politicalcritique.org/cee/poland/2017/tusk-vs-kaczynski-explaining-the-conflict/ |title=Tusk Vs Kaczyński: Explaining the Conflict |work=Political Critique |date=4 May 2017 |access-date=21 February 2023|quote=It was actually a conservative liberal party, with a moderate conservative agenda, and moderately anti-communist.}}{{bulleted list|{{cite book|last=Slomp|first=Hans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LmfAPmwE6YYC&pg=PA549|title=Europe, A Political Profile: An American Companion to European Politics|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2011|isbn=9780313391828|page=549|language=en|access-date=24 April 2019}}|{{cite book|author=Mart Laar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CM9QCOrlyOMC&pg=PA229|title=The Power of Freedom - Central and Eastern Europe after 1945|publisher=Unitas Foundation|year=2010|isbn=978-9949-21-479-2|page=229}}|{{cite book|author=Joanna A. Gorska|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIowWvWUXvQC&pg=PA104|title=Dealing with a Juggernaut: Analyzing Poland's Policy toward Russia, 1989-2009|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2012|isbn=978-0-7391-4534-0|page=104}}|{{cite book|author=Bartek Pytlas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOC9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|title=Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Mainstream Party Competition and Electoral Fortune|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1-317-49586-4|page=30}}|{{cite web|author=Florian Kellermann|url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/neue-partei-in-polen-fruehling-macht-der-linken-mitte.1773.de.html?dram:article_id=440070|title="Frühling" macht der linken Mitte Hoffnung|date=4 February 2019|website=Deutschlandfunk}}}} classical-liberal,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S8ICDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Civic&pg=PA207|author=Alan G. Smith|title=A Comparative Introduction to Political Science: Contention and Cooperation|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2016|page=207|isbn=9781442252608}} liberal,{{bulleted list|{{cite book|author=Paul Kubicek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAcqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA257|title=European Politics|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=978-1-317-20638-5|page=257}}|{{cite book|author=Tomasz Zarycki|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygAkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA206|title=Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-1-317-81857-1|page=206}}|{{Cite news|last1=Charlish|first1=Alan|last2=Koper|first2=Anna|date=3 July 2021|title=Poland's Tusk returns to frontline to face old foe Kaczynski|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polands-tusk-returns-frontline-vowing-lead-opposition-victory-2021-07-03/|access-date=27 December 2021}}|{{Cite web|date=15 September 2017|title=Poland's rightwing government takes control of NGO funding|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20170915-polands-rightwing-government-takes-control-ngo-funding|access-date=27 December 2021|website=France 24|language=en}}|{{Cite web|date=3 July 2021|title=Poland's Tusk returns to frontline, vowing to lead opposition to victory|url=https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/03/us-poland-politics|access-date=27 December 2021|website=euronews|language=en}}|{{cite book|author=David Ost|title=The New Politics of European Civil Society|publisher=Routledge|year=2011|isbn=978-0-415-57845-5|editor1=Ulrike Liebert|page=177|chapter=The decline of civil society after 'post-communism'|editor2=Hans-Jörg Trenz|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bS8Ms0OZl3cC&pg=PA177}}}} and social-liberal.{{cite web|title=Explainer: Whatever happened to Polish liberal conservatives?|url=https://polandin.com/38964630/explainer-whatever-happened-to-polish-liberal-conservatives|website=Polandin}}{{Cite book|last=Szczepański|first=Jarosław|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/939904795|title=Raport z badania : trójkąt ideologiczny|date=2015|publisher=Wydział Dziennikarstwa i Nauk Politycznych UW|others=Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Dziennikarstwa i Nauk Politycznych|isbn=978-83-63183-98-1|location=Warszawa|oclc=939904795}} It was also described as pragmatic and big tent.{{Cite web|date=4 May 2017|title=Is Poland's Civic Platform a serious threat to the ruling party?|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/05/04/is-polands-civic-platform-a-serious-threat-to-the-ruling-party/|access-date=27 December 2021|website=EUROPP}}{{Cite web|last=Riishøj|first=Søren|date=2011|title=The Civic Platform in Poland - the first decade 2001-2011|url=https://www.sdu.dk/-/media/files/om_sdu/institutter/statskundskab/skriftserie/sri+civic+platform_hjemmeside.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227005203/https://www.sdu.dk/-/media/files/om_sdu/institutter/statskundskab/skriftserie/sri+civic+platform_hjemmeside.pdf|archive-date=27 December 2021|publisher=University of Southern Denmark|issn=1399-7319}}{{Cite web|last=Szczerbiak|first=Aleks|date=18 January 2016|title=What Are The Prospects For Poland's Opposition?|url=https://socialeurope.eu/what-are-the-prospects-for-polands-opposition|access-date=27 December 2021|website=Social Europe|language=en-GB}} It supports Poland's membership in the European Union.{{cite book|author=Ingo Peters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3LsDJWq7DAC&pg=PA280|title=20 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Transitions, State Break-Up and Democratic Politics in Central Europe and Germany|publisher=BWV Verlag|year=2011|isbn=978-3-8305-1975-1|page=280|access-date=6 February 2013}}

Since 2007, when Civic Platform formed the government, the party has gradually moved from its Christian-democratic stances, and many of its politicians hold more liberal positions on social issues. In 2013, the Civic Platform's government introduced public funding of in vitro fertilization program. Civic Platform also supports civil unions for same-sex couples but is against same-sex marriage and the adoption of children by same-sex couples. The party also currently supports liberalization of the abortion law,{{Cite web|date=18 February 2021|title=Platforma Obywatelska przedstawia nowe stanowisko w sprawie aborcji|url=https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/platforma-obywatelska-przedstawia-nowe-stanowisko-w-spawie-aborcji/n1qs8m8|access-date=9 March 2021|website=Onet Wiadomości|language=pl}} which it had opposed while in government.{{Cite web|title=Premier na Kongresie Kobiet: przeciw radykalnym rozwiązaniom|url=https://polskieradio24.pl/art3_867160|access-date=9 March 2021|website=PolskieRadio24.pl}}

PO was described as neoliberal,{{cite journal |author1=Paweł Kamiński |author2=Patrycja Rozbicka |year=2016 |title=Political Parties and Trade Unions in the Post-Communist Poland: Class Politics that Have Never a Chance to Happen |doi=10.15804/ppsy2016015 |language=en |journal=Polish Political Science Yearbook |volume=45 |issue=1 |issn=0208-7375 |page=198 |quote="Interestingly, though, more of them have supported the neoliberal centre-right Civil Platform, which in power with its coalition partner PSL (Polish Peasants’ Party) since 2008 until 2015."|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |author1=Stuart Shield |year=2012 |title=Opposing Neoliberalism? Poland's Renewed Populism and Post-Communist Transition |doi=10.15804/ppsy2016015 |language=en |journal=Third World Quarterly |volume=33 |issue=2 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41507174 |page=367 |jstor=41507174 |quote="Despite this, the two centre-right parties, the neoliberal Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska - PO) and Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc - PIS), failed to offer any serious credible alternative."|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |author1=Piotr Żuk |author2=Anna Pacześniak |date=15 December 2022 |title=Is it possible to defeat right-wing populist authorities by winning elections? The erosion of democracy and the system of the triple-masters class in Poland |language=en |journal=Frontiers in Political Science |volume=4 |issue=1 |doi=10.3389/fpos.2022.1040616 |page=7 |quote="KO is made up of several parties, the largest of which is Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska—PO). PO was in power twice: from 2007 until 2011 and later, between 2011 and 2015, acting as a senior partner in a coalition with the Polish People’s Party (PSL) and occupied the office of the Prime Minister for two full terms. This center-right party formed in 2001 combines economic neoliberalism with social conservatism." |doi-access=free }}PO has often been described as neoliberal:

• {{Cite news|title=Poland's government|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/poland-s-government-1.510232|access-date=27 December 2021|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}
• {{Cite web|last1=Kamiński|first1=Paweł|last2=Rozbicka|first2=Patrycja|date=2016|title=Political Parties and Trade Unions in the Post-Communist Poland: Class Politics that Have Never a Chance to Happen|url=https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/29217/1/PPSY45130_Manuscript.pdf}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Shields|first=Stuart|date=April 2012|title=Opposing Neoliberalism? Poland's renewed populism and post-communist transition|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2012.666016|journal=Third World Quarterly|language=en|volume=33|issue=2|pages=359–381|doi=10.1080/01436597.2012.666016|s2cid=154652204 |issn=0143-6597|url-access=subscription}} economically liberal,{{Cite news|title=Wahlkampf-Attacken im konservativen Lager |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2084941/wahlkampf-attacken-im-konservativen-lager|access-date=1 April 2023|newspaper=Der Standard|language=de|date= 29 June 2005}}{{Cite news|title= Zur Lage der Bürgerplattform (PO) in Polen |url=https://www.kas.de/pl/web/polen/laenderberichte/detail/-/content/zur-lage-der-buergerplattform-po-in-polen|access-date=1 April 2023|newspaper=Konrad Adenauer Foundation|language=de|date= 25 April 2008}} and fiscally conservative.{{Cite news|title= Polish nurses set to strike over low pay |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-nurses-set-strike-over-low-pay-2/|access-date=1 April 2023|newspaper=Politico|language=en|date=10 September 2015}} Despite this and declaring in the parliamentary election campaign the will to limit taxation in Poland, it increased the excise imposed on diesel oil, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and oil.{{cite web|url=http://forsal.pl/artykuly/736318,rzad-podwyzsza-akcyze-i-zamraza-place.html|title=ząd podwyższa akcyzę i zamraża płace|access-date=31 August 2014|date=2 October 2013 |publisher=forsal.pl}}{{cite web |url=http://wyborcza.biz/biznes/1,101562,10692214,Rzad_zaciska_pasa__zamraza_pensje__podnosi_akcyze.html|title=Rząd zaciska pasa: zamraża pensje, podnosi akcyzę na papierosy i paliwa|access-date=31 August 2014|date=23 October 2011|publisher=wyborcza.biz}} The party refrained from implementing the flat tax, instead increasing value-added tax from 22% to 23% in 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.ekonomia.rp.pl/artykul/517559-Plan-przyjety--VAT-w-gore.html |title=Rzeczpospolita |publisher=rp.pl |date=8 March 2010 |access-date=31 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927235812/http://www.ekonomia.rp.pl/artykul/517559-Plan-przyjety--VAT-w-gore.html |archive-date=27 September 2014 |url-status=dead }} The party also eliminated many tax exemptions.{{cite web|url=http://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Dzis-dowiemy-sie-dlaczego-rzad-zabierze-nam-ulgi-2578419.html|title=Dziś dowiemy się, dlaczego rząd zabierze nam ulgi|access-date=31 August 2014|date=26 July 2012|publisher=bankier.pl}}{{cite web|url=http://mamstartup.pl/poradnik/5299/zmiany-w-odliczaniu-vat-od-samochodow-sprawdz-ile-i-kiedy-mozesz-odliczyc|author=Sebastian Bobrowski|title=Zmiany w odliczaniu VAT od samochodów. Sprawdź ile i kiedy możesz odliczyć|access-date=31 August 2014|date=25 March 2014|publisher=mamstartup.pl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419025848/http://mamstartup.pl/poradnik/5299/zmiany-w-odliczaniu-vat-od-samochodow-sprawdz-ile-i-kiedy-mozesz-odliczyc|archive-date=19 April 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sejm.gov.pl/sejm7.nsf/agent.xsp?symbol=glosowania&nrkadencji=7&nrposiedzenia=3&nrglosowania=25|title=Głosowanie nad przyjęciem w całości projektu ustawy o zmianie niektórych ustaw związanych z realizacją ustawy budżetowej, w brzmieniu proponowanym przez Komisję Finansów Publicznych, wraz z przyjętymi poprawkami|date=16 December 2011|access-date=31 August 2014|publisher=sejm.gov.pl}} In response to the climate crisis, the Civic Platform has promised to end the use of coal for energy in Poland by 2040.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/poland-coal-phase-2040-opposition/|title=Poland coal phase out pledged for 2040 by opposition government|date=15 July 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=12 October 2019}}

After becoming the biggest opposition party, the Civic Platform became more culturally liberal and populist.{{cite journal |author=Søren Riishøj |author-link=:da:Søren Riishøj |year=2010 |title=The Civic Platform in Poland - the first decade 2001-2011 |language=en |journal=Political Science Publications |volume=24 |issue=1 |page=30 |quote="In other words, on the policy and programme level the Civic Platform (PO) developed into a centre-right soft Thatcherite liberal, anti-communist, soft Christian nationalist and populist party."}}{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-politicians-donald-tusk-attack-migrants-for-electoral-gain/|title=Polish politicians attack migrants for electoral gain|date=9 July 2023 |quote="Donald Tusk is toying with anti-migrant language to match the tone of the ruling Law and Justice party.|access-date=15 July 2023}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/06/poland-protests-eu-hungary-spat-show-right-and-wrong-way-to-fight-for-democracy/90103ce0-0421-11ee-b74a-5bdd335d4fa2_story.html|title=There Are Right and Wrong Ways to Fight For Democracy|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=15 July 2023}}{{cite journal |author1=Szymon Wróbel |year=2011 |title=Mourning Populism. The Case of Poland |language=en |journal=Polish Sociological Review |volume=176 |issue=1 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41478893 |pages=445, 448 |jstor=41478893 |quote="On the other hand however, the victory of Civic Platform (CP) [Platforma Obywatelska] in the parliamentary elections in September 2007 had much to do with the promise of a new Ireland, our dream to come true. The fact that it was such a successful message and that it became a true banner of the victory allows us to see CP’s success in terms of populism. (...) If we come back to Laclau’s distinction one could even say that CP’s populism and L&J’s populism seek to attain what Laclau recognizes as unconceivable."}} This tendency is especially popular among the younger generation of the party's politicians, such as mayor of Warsaw and presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski. The party has also changed its opinion about the social programs of PiS, starting to support them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/artykuly/1485161,trzaskowski-program-500-plus-in-vitro-nord-stream-2.html|title= Trzaskowski: 500 plus musi być bronione|work=gazetaprawna.pl|date= 2 July 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://ideologia.pl/program-partii-platforma-obywatelska/|title= Program Partii Platforma Obywatelska|date= 4 April 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.badaniawyborcze.pl/index.php/wybory/partie-kandydaci|title= Partie i kandydaci

}} Since being in government again, the party has taken an anti-immigration stance to migrants coming from Russia and Belarus.{{bulleted list|{{cite web |url=https://talk.tv/top-stories/49270/donald-tusk-immigration-civilisational-threat |title=Uncontrolled immigration will lead to 'world collapse' warns Poland's new PM Donald Tusk |date=14 February 2024 |quote="During his election campaign, Mr Tusk drew on anti-immigration themes that drew criticism from the country’s left wing for “competing with the far right”." |website=talk.tv}}|{{cite web |url=https://novaramedia.com/2023/10/02/on-migration-the-polish-left-has-all-but-given-up/ |title=On Migration, the Polish Left Has All But Given Up |first1=Dan |last1=Davison |first2=Ewa |last2=Pospieszyńska |date=2 October 2023 |quote="With the Civic Coalition trying to woo Law and Justice voters by repackaging its xenophobia, it falls to the Polish left to change the narrative on immigration." |website=Novara Media}}|{{cite web |url=https://www.intellinews.com/new-poll-indicates-polish-opposition-could-edge-out-pis-in-new-parliament-292244/ |title=New poll indicates Polish opposition could edge out PiS in new parliament |date=11 September 2023 |first=Dawid |last=Kość |quote="In a recent video, KO employed similar images of migration that PiS also used in their overtly anti-immigration materials, both in the current and the previous campaigns." |website=IntelliNews}}|{{cite web |url=https://ecre.org/poland-opposition-takes-majority-in-elections-people-on-the-move-are-victims-of-political-game-at-belarus-border/ |title=Poland: Opposition Takes Majority in Elections, People on the Move are Victims of "Political Game" At Belarus Border |date=20 October 2023 |website=ecre.org |quote="Migration was one of the most heated topics in the election campaign and even the opposition adopted anti-migration rhetoric."}}}}|{{cite web |url=https://oko.press/tusk-zapowiada-zawieszenie-prawa-do-azylu/ |title="A powerful shot from a cannon." Tusk announces suspension of right to asylum |date=12 October 2024 |website=oko.press |quote="There is no surprise, but Prime Minister Tusk went further than expected: he announced the suspension of the right to asylum. He said: “One of the elements of the migration strategy will be a temporary, territorial suspension of the right to asylum, and I will demand recognition in Europe for this decision.}}

Image:Bronisław Komorowski (2013).jpg|Bronisław Komorowski former president of Poland

Image:Buzek 3200.jpg|Jerzy Buzek former president of the European Parliament and former Prime Minister of Poland

Image:Borys Budka former Minister of Justice and leader of Platforma Obywatelska (2020-2021)

Image:Radosław Sikorski former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Marshal of the Sejm

Image:Bogdanborusewicz.jpg|Bogdan Borusewicz former Marshal of the Senate

Image:Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (2014).JPG|Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz former Mayor of Warsaw

Image:Rafał Trzaskowski Mayor of Warsaw candidate for President of Poland in 2020

{{See also|Poland A and B}}

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As of 2020, the party enjoyed the greatest support in large cities and among people with higher education and in managerial positions, while in terms of age, the electorate was evenly distributed,{{cite journal |last=Biskup |first=Bartłomiej |year=2020 |title=Portret wyborców AD 2019. Zmiany w preferencjach elektoratów partyjnych w Polsce |publisher=Warsaw University |doi=10.33896/SPolit.2020.55.13 |language=pl |url=http://www.studiapolitologiczne.pl/pdf-123030-51191?filename=Voter_s%20portrait%20AD.pdf |journal=Studia Politologiczne |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=306–307|s2cid=238178401 }} and the electoral base of the Civic Platform lay in middle-aged, highly educated gold-collar and white-collar workers of the middle and upper-middle classes. As of 2020, the Civic Platform electorate was made up of more women than men, was disproportionally represented by middle-aged, urban and middle-class voters, and was characterized by higher levels of education, higher position in the socio-professional structure, as well as moderate religiosity and Roman Catholicism.{{cite journal |last=Zagała |first=Zbigniew |year=2020 |title=Partie polityczne i ich elektoraty. Od sympatii do antagonizmu. Na przykładzie Platformy Obywatelskiej i Prawa i Sprawiedliwości |publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM |doi=10.14746/pp.2020.25.2.14 |language=pl |journal=Przegląd Politologiczny |volume=2 |issue=2 |issn=1426-8876 |page=198|s2cid=225679632 |doi-access=free |hdl=10593/25726 |hdl-access=free }} The party consistently enjoyed overwhelming support of workers such as directors, managers and specialists, business owners and co-owners, and administrative workers. At the same time, the party underperformed amongst blue-collar workers, young voters, farmers and students, as well as unemployed voters. In regards to age, Civic Platform performed the best amongst voters aged 40–49, while also performing strongly among 30-39 and 50-59 year olds. The party performs the worst amongst the oldest (aged 60 or more) and the youngest (aged 29 or less) voters. The party strongly appealed to urban voters, as almost a half of voters living in big cities (500,000 people or more) vote for Civic Platform; support for the party remains strong in middle-sized cities but strongly declines in small towns and the countryside, as on average only 15% of rural voters support it.

As of 2016, an overwhelming majority of party's supporters (83%) were Roman Catholics, and 44% of these voters partook in religious practices at least once a week.{{cite book |last=Secler |first=Bartłomiej |year=2016 |title=Religia i Religijność a Poziom Frekwencji Wyborczej |isbn=978-83-62352-35-7 |publisher=Wydawnictwo Morpho |language=pl |url=https://repozytorium.amu.edu.pl/bitstream/10593/15310/1/Religia%20i%20religinosc%20a%20frekwencja%20wyborcza.pdf |page=109}} As of 2016, the party was supported by the Christian left, as well as liberal and moderate Catholics, while most of conservative Catholics in Poland support Law and Justice instead. Churchgoing Catholics are roughly evenly split between Civic Platform and Law and Justice, with a significant minority of churchgoers supporting Polish People's Party as well. Catholics who support Civic Platform "oppose, on the one hand, the state's enforcement of religious norms and, on the other, do not condone their violation".{{cite journal |last=Kowalczyk |first=Krzysztof |year=2015 |title=Stanowiska polskich partii politycznych wobec religii i Kościoła. Propozycja typologii |issn=2353-9747 |journal=Studia Politicae Universitatis Silesiensis |volume=15 |issue=1 |publisher=University of Silesia in Katowice |language=pl |page=168}} This is largely consistent with the party's attitude towards religion, which combines a moderately conservative and politically Catholic program with left-wing economic slogans, supported by Catholic social teaching and the teaching of John Paul II contained in the encyclical Centesimus annus.

As of 2020, most of Civic Platform's electorate identified as liberal conservatives, centrists and moderate conservatives.{{cite journal |last=Zagała |first=Zbigniew |year=2020 |title=Partie polityczne i ich elektoraty. Od sympatii do antagonizmu. Na przykładzie Platformy Obywatelskiej i Prawa i Sprawiedliwości |publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydziału Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM

|doi=10.14746/pp.2020.25.2.14 |language=pl |journal=Przegląd Politologiczny |volume=2 |issue=2 |issn=1426-8876 |pages=193–205|s2cid=225679632 |doi-access=free |hdl=10593/25726 |hdl-access=free }} No tendency dominates, as the party's supporters are roughly evenly split between political tendencies - 35% of party's supporters identify with political center, 28% as left-wing, and 24% as right-wing. Throughout the 2010s, Civic Platform had been losing left-wing supporters due to the re-emergence of Lewica as well as Janusz Palikot's defection from the party. The party also faced a challenge from Nowoczesna, whose vote "came largely from former Civic Platform supporters, disappointed with its failure to shake off its social conservatism".{{cite journal |last=Koczanowicz |first=Leszek |date=December 2016 |title=The Polish Case: Community and Democracy under the PiS |language=en |journal=New Left Review |volume=102 |issue=1 |page=78 }} According to Janusz Jartyś of the University of Szczecin, the ideological base of Civic Platform are "national-conservative, liberal and social-democratic voters", with each faction expecting "at least partial implementation of their demands, stability in the governance of the country and social peace".{{cite journal |last=Jartyś |first=Janusz |year=2016 |title=Kwestie obyczajowe w programie i działalności Platformy Obywatelskiej Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej |publisher=Uniwersytet Szczeciński |doi=10.18276/ap.2016.35-05 |language=pl |journal=Acta Politica Polonica |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=59–66|doi-access=free }} According to Søren Riishøj, the party is also unpopular amongst the traditionally social-democratic voters, who are opposed to Europeanisation and globalization, and are critical of the Civic Platform's "almost U.S. type of election campaign."{{cite journal |author=Søren Riishøj |author-link=:da:Søren Riishøj |year=2010 |title=The Civic Platform in Poland - the first decade 2001-2011 |language=en |journal=Political Science Publications |volume=24 |issue=1 |page=15}}

As of 2021, according to CBOS, Civic Platform was overwhelmingly popular amongst pro-European voters, with almost 80% of party's supporters wishing to cooperate with the European Union more.{{cite journal |last=Roguska |first=Beata |date=August 2021 |title=Elektoraty o istotnych kwestiach społeczno-politycznych |publisher=Centre for Public Opinion Research |issn=2353-5822 |language=pl |journal=Komunikat z Badań |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=9–10}} The party is generally supported by moderates, as most of the party's voters wish for a "compromise" on issues such as abortion. Economically, the party is supported by pro-business and welfare-oriented voters alike; while most of Civic Platform's supporters believe that Poland should become a welfare state, they are evenly split on issues such as progressive taxation and flat tax, and nationalization vs. privatization. The party has also enjoyed the support of regionalists, autonomists and voters supportive of decentralization and localism in general. Over 90% of Civic Platform supporters believe that local governments should have more power and that the national government should devolve its power to the regional governments of gminas and voivodeships. The party is supported by Silesian regionalists,{{cite news |last=Jedlecki |language=pl |first=Przemysław |date=8 August 2019 |title=Śląscy autonomiści dołączają do Koalicji Obywatelskiej |url=https://katowice.wyborcza.pl/katowice/7,35063,25070575,slascy-autonomisci-dolaczaja-do-koalicji-obywatelskiej.html?disableRedirects=true |publisher=Wyborcza}} and had organized joint electoral lists with Silesian parties like Silesian Autonomy Movement and Silesian Regional Party.{{cite news |last=Pawlik |language=pl |first=Paweł |date=9 August 2019 |title=Ruch Autonomii Śląska na listach Koalicji Obywatelskiej |url=https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/slask/wybory-parlamentarne-2019-ruch-autonomii-slaska-na-listach-koalicji-obywatelskiej/5b75y0t |publisher=Onet}} Local politicians of the Civic Platform in Silesia are often associated with Silesian regionalism as well.{{cite web |title=Śląskie Porozumienie Wyborcze nawiązuje współpracę z Koalicją Obywatelską. Śląski wyborca musi mieć pewność, że głos na regionalistów nie będzie głosem zmarnowanym |url=https://autonomia.pl/2019/08/08/slaskie-porozumienie-wyborcze-nawiazuje-wspolprace-z-koalicja-obywatelska-slaski-wyborca-musi-miec-pewnosc-ze-glos-na-regionalistow-nie-bedzie-glosem-zmarnowanym/ |website=autonomia.pl |language=pl|date=8 August 2019}} The party also enjoys support from the Kashubians and their local autonomist movement,{{cite news |last=Noch |language=pl |first=Jakub |date=6 October 2015 |title="Zemsta za Tuska i brak poparcia PiS". Jak i dlaczego Kaszubi jednoczą się przeciw PiS, który chce ich "rozbioru" |url=https://natemat.pl/156931,zemsta-za-tuska-i-niepopieranie-pis-jak-i-dlaczego-kaszubi-jednocza-sie-przeciw-pis-ktory-zaatakowal-ich-wspolnote |publisher=NaTemat}} with the co-founder of the party, Donald Tusk, having expressed his support for autonomous Kashubia in 1992.{{cite news |last=Tusk |first=Donald |author-link=Donald Tusk |date=June 1992 |title=Regionalizm jako samodzielna siła polityczna |language=pl |url=https://bibliotekacyfrowa.eu/Content/2911/Image001.pdf |work=Pomerania |location=Gdańsk}}

In March 2023, Tusk stated that Silesian should be considered a language rather than an ethnolect as it has unique literature and grammar, and promised to recognize Silesian as an official, statutory language of Upper Silesia.{{cite news |date=19 March 2023 |title=Tusk: Śląski będzie językiem regionalnym, też na poziomie ustawowym |url=https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Tusk-Slaski-bedzie-jezykiem-regionalnym-tez-na-poziomie-ustawowym-8507823.html |publisher=Bankier |language=pl}}{{cite news |last1=Konopka |first1=Krzysztof |last2=Mikowski |first2=Mateusz |date=19 March 2023 |title=Tusk: język śląski będzie uznany za język regionalny |url=https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C1550466%2Ctusk-jezyk-slaski-bedzie-uznany-za-jezyk-regionalny.html |publisher=Polish Press Agency}} Tusk also declared that he was a regionalist.

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