Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania
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Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania
Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija Akcja Wyborcza Polaków na Litwie |
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| Abbreviation | LLRA |
| Chairman | Valdemar Tomaševski |
| Vice Chairpeople |
Zbignev Jedinskij Vanda Kravčionok Zdzislav Palevič Marija Rekst Leonard Talmont |
| Secretary General | Renata Sobieska-Monkevič |
| Founded | 28 August 1994 |
| Headquarters | Pilies g. 16, Vilnius |
| Membership | 1,200 (the end of 2010) |
| Ideology |
Polish minority interests Christian democracy Soft Euroscepticism Pro-Russia |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists |
| Colours | Red and white (colours of the Polish flag) |
| Seimas |
8 / 141
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| European Parliament |
1 / 11
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| Website | |
| www |
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Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija or LLRA; Polish: Akcja Wyborcza Polaków na Litwie or AWPL) is a political party in Lithuania. It represents the Polish minority and positions itself as Christian democratic. It has 8 seats in the Seimas, one seat in the European Parliament, and 11 seats in coalition with the Russian Alliance in the Vilnius City Municipality.
Formed in 1994 from the political wing of the Association of Poles in Lithuania, LLRA experienced a surge in support in the 2000s, under the leadership of Valdemar Tomaševski. It increased its representation from under 2% in 2000, leading to the party being invited to join the governing coalition: an invitation they rejected. They increased their vote again to 3.8% in 2004 and 4.8% in the most recent election, in 2008: just short of the 5% election threshold for any of the Seimas's 70 proportional representation seats. In the 2009 European election, they won 8.2% and one seat. The party's vote is concentrated in the south-east of the country, around the capital, where the Polish minority is located. At the 2012 election, LLRA broke through 5% in a parliamentary election for the first time: qualifying for proportional representation seats.
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