Labour Union (Poland)
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Labour Union
Unia Pracy |
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| Leader | Waldemar Witkowski |
| Founded | June 1992 |
| Preceded by | PUS |
| Headquarters | ul. Nowogrodzka 4, 00-513 Warsaw |
| Youth wing | Labor Union Youth Federation |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Red |
| Sejm |
0 / 460
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| Senate |
0 / 100
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| European Parliament |
1 / 51
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| Regional assemblies |
1 / 555
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| Website | |
| http://www.uniapracy.org.pl/ | |
Labour Union (Polish: Unia Pracy, UP) is a minor social-democraticpolitical party in Poland. It is a member of the Party of European Socialists (PES).
Labour Union was formed in June 1992. The party contested the 1993 parliamentary elections, obtaining 7.28% of the popular vote and had 41 representatives elected to the lower house (Sejm). In the following parliamentary elections of 1997, UP received only 4.74% of votes, thereby falling short of the required 5% threshold for election to the Sejm. At the 2001 parliamentary elections, UP entered into an electoral alliance with the major Polish social-democratic party Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), and managed to get 16 of its members elected to parliament. Some of those members subsequently left UP to join the newly created Social Democracy of Poland (SDPL), a splinter group from the SLD. In May 2004, UP signed an alliance with SDPL, in which both parties agreed to jointly contest the following parliamentary elections under the SDPL banner, and to support the candidacy of Marek Borowski in the 2005 presidential election. At the 2005 parliamentary elections, SDPL gained only 3.9% of the vote, which was insufficient for the alliance to achieve parliamentary representation.
In 2006, UP joined SLD, SDPL and the liberal Democratic Party – demokraci.pl to form a centre-left electoral alliance named Left and Democrats (LiD) for the upcoming local elections. This electoral alliance was maintained for the 2007 parliamentary elections, and LiD came in third place with 13.2% of the vote, which saw 53 of its candidates elected to the Sejm. Unfortunately for UP, the party was the only one of the four component parties of the LiD alliance not to have any of its candidates elected.
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