Free Republicans

In the Kukiz'15 circle, which became the Free Republicans, sat Kukiz'15 deputies: Paweł Kukiz (leader), and also Marek Jakubiak and Jarosław Sachajko; since {{date|2024-07-24|DMY}} Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, who left Law and Justice to found Freedom and Prosperity on {{date|2024-09-19|DMY}},{{Citation |title=Wolność i Dobrobyt |work=bip.warszawa.so.gov.pl |url=https://bip.warszawa.so.gov.pl/rejestr-partii/0/495/wolnosc-i-dobrobyt-postanowienie-nieprawomocne}} was also a party member. The party name alludes to the United States Republican Party.{{Citation |last=Wiktor Ferfecki |title=Nowa formacja Jana Krzysztofa Ardanowskiego, Marka Jakubiaka i Pawła Kukiza. Chcą być jak republikanie w USA |date=24 September 2024 |work=rp.pl |url=https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art41180771-nowa-formacja-jana-krzysztofa-ardanowskiego-marka-jakubiaka-i-pawla-kukiza-chca-byc-jak-republikanie-w-usa}}

On {{date|2024-09-25|DMY}}, a press conference was held in the Sejm, where Witold Gadowski and Wojciech Sumliński from There is One Poland, {{ill|Marcin Dybowski|pl|Marcin Dybowski|lt=Marcin Dybowski|qid=Q130751096}} from Freedom and Prosperity, and representatives from Rural Solidarity, "Samoobrona" agricultural trade union and the All-Polish Grassroots Farmers' Protest appeared alongside Kukiz'15 members.{{Citation |title=Integrowanie polskiej centroprawicy postępuje |date=5 October 2024 |url=https://pressmania.pl/integrowanie-polskiej-centroprawicy-postepuje/}}{{Citation |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiDPRvFJciQ |title=Czas zintegrować prawicę! Trzeba odbić naszą ojczyznę ze złych rąk |date={{date|2024-09-25|DMY}} |last=Jakubiak |first=Marek |author-link=Marek Jakubiak |type=Video |language=pl |trans-title=It is time to integrate the right! It is necessary to take back our homeland from evil hands |access-date={{date|2025-01-06|DMY}} |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926002514/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/AiDPRvFJciQ |archive-date={{date|2024-09-26|DMY}} |url-status=live |via=YouTube}}

On {{date|2024-10-16|DMY}} the Kukiz'15 circle transformed into the Free Republicans circle,{{Citation |title=Paweł Kukiz zaskoczył na antenie. Założył nowe koło poselskie |date=16 October 2024 |work=polsatnews.pl |url=https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2024-10-16/pawel-kukiz-zalozyl-nowe-kolo-poselskie-znamy-nazwe/}} and its leader became Marek Jakubiak.{{Citation |title=Koło poselskie Wolni Republikanie |work=sejm.gov.pl |url=https://www.sejm.gov.pl/sejm10.nsf/klubposlowie.xsp?klub=Republikanie}} Twelve days later it announced it will contest the 2025 Polish presidential election with Marek Jakubiak as its candidate.{{Citation |title=Marek Jakubiak startuje w wyborach |date=28 October 2024 |work=tvrepublika.pl |url=https://tvrepublika.pl/Polityka/Marek-Jakubiak-startuje-w-wyborach/173737}} In the election, Jakubiak sought to promote the party and appeal to conservative and Polish diaspora circles. There were minor conflicts inside the party in the presidential campaign, as Jakubiak had a friendly attitude towards the main Polish right-wing party Law and Justice, while Kukiz, the co-leader of Free Republicans, distanced himself from both Law and Justice and Jakubiak's overtures to them.{{cite web |url=https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/spiecie-w-wolnych-republikanach-kukiz-wbil-szpile-koledze-7099513618061952a |title=Spięcie w Wolnych Republikanach? Kukiz wbił szpilę koledze |date=4 December 2024 |language=pl |first=Kamila |last=Gurgul}} In the first round, Jakubiak finished 10th, winning 0.77% of the popular vote.{{cite web |url=https://www.prawo.pl/samorzad/kto-wygral-wybory-prezydenckie-2025-wyniki-pkw,533006.html |title=Wiadomo już, kto wygrał II turę wyborów prezydenckich - oficjalne wyniki PKW |date=2 June 2025 |language=pl |first=Robert |last=Horbaczewski}}

After the first round, all MPs of the party endorsed Karol Nawrocki, an independent candidate supported by Law and Justice.{{bulleted list|{{cite web |url=https://wiadomosci.radiozet.pl/Popoludniowy-Gosc-Radia-ZET/jakubiak-w-radiu-zet-popre-w-drugiej-turze-nawrockiego-lub-mentzena |language=pl |title=Jakubiak w Radiu ZET: Poprę w drugiej turze Nawrockiego lub Mentzena |date=12 May 2025 |website=Radio ZET |quote="Jeśli Karol Nawrocki wejdzie do drugiej tury albo jak to będzie Sławomir Mentzen, to go poprę, nie będę miał też problemu z Grzegorzem Braunem. Każdy prawicowy kandydat będzie lepszy niż Rafał Trzaskowski – wskazał Marek Jakubiak, poseł Wolnych Republikanów oraz kandydat na prezydenta RP w “Popołudniowym Gościu Radia ZET”." |trans-quote="If Karol Nawrocki makes it to the second round, or if it's Sławomir Mentzen, I will support him, and I will have no problem with Grzegorz Braun either. Any right-wing candidate will be better than Rafał Trzaskowski, said Marek Jakubiak, MP for the Free Republicans and candidate for President of Poland, on Radio ZET's Popołudniowy Gość programme."}}|{{cite web |url=https://dorzeczy.pl/opinie/728628/jakubiak-apeluje-o-glosowanie-na-nawrockiego.html |title="Sprawa oczywista". Jakubiak po ogłoszeniu wyników: Od początku o tym mówię |date=19 May 2025 |language=pl |website=Do Rzeczy |first=Marcin |last=Bugaj |quote="Według badania late poll Marek Jakubiak zdobył 0,8 proc. głosów podczas I tury wyborów prezydenckich. Polityk zadeklarował, że poprze w II turze Karola Nawrockiego. Zaapelował także do pozostałych kandydatów prawicowych, aby postąpili tak samo." |trans-quote="According to a late poll, Marek Jakubiak won 0.8% of the vote in the first round of the presidential election. The politician declared that he would support Karol Nawrocki in the second round. He also appealed to other right-wing candidates to do the same."}}|{{cite web |url=https://dorzeczy.pl/opinie/729501/kukiz-popiera-nawrockiego-planuje-przekonac-wyborcow-mentzena-i-brauna.html |language=pl |website=Do Rzeczy |title=Kukiz wprost o II turze: Będę przekonywał elektorat Mentzena i Brauna |date=20 May 2025 |quote="Kukiz przyznał że w pierwszej turze wyborów prezydenckich głosował na Sławomira Mentzena. – Ja będę próbował przekonać elektorat Konfederacji i Grzegorza Brauna do głosowania na Nawrockiego, jako zabezpieczenie przed jednowładztwem Tuska – mówił w rozmowie z dziennikarką wprost.pl." |trans-quote="Kukiz admitted that he voted for Sławomir Mentzen in the first round of the presidential election. ‘I will try to convince the Confederation and Grzegorz Braun's electorate to vote for Nawrocki as a safeguard against Tusk's autocracy,’ he said in an interview with a journalist from wprost.pl."}}}} Kukiz said that supporting Nawrocki is necessary to prevent the Tusk government from abusing the law to suppress its political opponents, and called on both right-wing and left-wing movements to support Nawrocki.{{cite web |url=https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/730997-kukiz-ostrzega-tusk-rozpocznie-demontaz-pis-i-konfederacji |title=Kolejny apel o głosowanie na Karola Nawrockiego! Kukiz: Jeśli Tusk będzie miał pełnię władzy, to rozpocznie demontaż PiS i Konfederacji |date=30 May 2025 |language=pl}} Similarly, Jakubiak argued that it is necessary to support Nawrocki to prevent Poland from becoming a "banana republic" of the European Union.{{cite web |url=https://tvrepublika.pl/W-Telewizji-Republika/Marek-Jakubiak-My-walczymy-o-Polske-a-nie-Europe/188914 |title=Jakubiak: Dla nas Polska jest czymś więcej niż interesem europejskim |date=15 May 2025 |language=pl}}

Free Republicans are considered right-wing, and conservative. Kukiz described Free Republicans as a party with a goal "to unite all those people who have a patriotic worldview and who either did not vote or, for various reasons, did not vote for PiS in the previous elections" and "to create a force that will remove cosmopolitans and bad people from power." On behalf of the party, Sachajko stated that Free Republicans prioritize Polish families, support motherhood, and oppose immigration.{{cite web |url=https://tvrepublika.pl/W-Telewizji-Republika/Sachajko-powinnismy-stawiac-na-polskie-rodziny-i-wspierac-macierzynstwo/189107 |title=Sachajko: powinniśmy stawiać na polskie rodziny i wspierać macierzyństwo |date=18 May 2025 |language=pl}} The party describes itself as conservative, patriotic, pro-independence, connected with the Christian tradition and concerned with Polish agriculture.

According to Jakubiak, Free Republicans have the same proposals and program that Kukiz'15 had been pursuing before. The party's programmatic demands listed by Jakubiak include the establishment of an Institution of Judicial Justice, introduction of general election for Attorney General, and the establishment of a mechanism that will allow for a recall of the Polish president. The party also wants to introduce direct-vote referendums and to change the electoral law of Poland. Kukiz spoke of the ideologically diverse character of the party, as each of its MP has "a different approach to politics and different goals in the Sejm". Jakubiak represents the interests of the Polish diaspora and right-wing circles, while Jan Ardanowski represents those who "voted for the right wing but did not vote in these elections because they were disappointed with the agricultural policy pursued by PiS."{{cite web |url=https://businessinsider.com.pl/wiadomosci/koniec-kukiz15-w-sejmie-powolal-nowe-kolo-poselskie-wolni-republikanie/jk6b23d |title=Paweł Kukiz zaskoczył. Powołał nowe koło poselskie w Sejmie |date=17 October 2024 |language=pl |website=Business Insider}}

For the 2025 Polish presidential election, the party presented a program based on simplifying the tax system and cutting financial obligations on businesses, speeding up court proceedings and increasing the transparency of the courts, transferring more powers to local governments, trengthening the armed forces and modernising the Polish army, introducing tax breaks and subsidies for farmers, the creation of local cooperatives and economic initiatives in rural areas, as well as greater welfare support for families and pro-family policies that would increase natural population growth.{{cite web |url=https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kim-jest-marek-jakubiak-sylwetka-i-program-wyborczy-kandydata-na-prezydenta-polski-2025-7142535053749184a |title=Kim jest Marek Jakubiak? Sylwetka i program wyborczy kandydata na prezydenta Polski 2025 |date=4 April 2025 |language=pl |first=Karol |last=Wiak}}

Free Republicans postulate a return to active conscription that would also apply to women, with 3-6 months of military training. It also supports selective nationalization of Polish industry, lump-sum tax on businesses and replacing the personal income tax with turnover tax. The party argues that a relationship between two people should have a utilitarian significance for the state, and thus supports marriage as a heterosexual family with children, and opposes civil partnerships. It is also in favor of a "bull tax" ({{langx|pl|bykowe}}), a tax on childless people.{{cite web |url=https://www.rmf24.pl/tylko-w-rmf24/poranna-rozmowa/news-jakubiak-jestem-za-poborem-powszechnym-dla-kobiet-i-mezczyzn,nId,7949975 |title=Jakubiak: Jestem za poborem powszechnym dla kobiet i mężczyzn |date=16 April 2025 |language=pl |website=RMF FM |first1=Natalia |last1=Nadolczak |first2=Tomasz |last2=Terlikowski}} The party also proposes an advanced agricultural program - it opposes the EU–Mercosur Association Agreement, calls for agricultural protectionism and subsidies, and proposes establishing a system through which state-owned companies would purchase and process Polish agricultural products in order to allow the state to control the prices. It argues that Poland should establish food sovereignty instead of relying on food imports. The party criticizes the agricultural policy of Law and Justice for focusing on subsidies instead of state intervention.{{cite web |url=https://pozatorun.pl/wiadomosci/ardanowski-jest-szansa-obrony-rolnictwa-wywiad/ |title=Ardanowski: Jest szansa obrony rolnictwa [WYWIAD] |date=21 November 2024 |language=pl |first=Arkadiusz |last=Włodarski |location=Toruń |website=Poza Toruń}}

• Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski (Freedom and Prosperity)
• Marek Jakubiak (Kukiz'15, Federation for the Republic) – leader
• Paweł Kukiz (independent representative from Kukiz'15)
• Jarosław Sachajko (Kukiz'15)

All deputies were elected from the Law and Justice electoral lists.

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