Palikot's Movement
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Your Movement
Twój Ruch |
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| Leader | Janusz Palikot, Barbara Nowacka |
| Founded | 1 June 2011 (RP) 6 October 2013 (TR) |
| Headquarters |
ul. Nowy Świat 39 00-029 Warsaw |
| Ideology |
Social liberalism Progressivism Anti-clericalism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre to Centre-left |
| Colours | Orange and Blue |
| Sejm |
0 / 460
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| Senate |
0 / 100
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| European Parliament |
0 / 51
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| Website | |
| http://twojruch.eu/ | |
Your Movement (Polish: Twój Ruch, which can also be translated as Your Move TR) is a political party in Poland. The party was founded by Janusz Palikot, a former Civic Platform MP, in October 2010 as Palikot Movement (Polish: Ruch Palikota, RP). The party adopted its current name and programme on 6 October 2013.
In July 2010, Palikot – then still a member of Civic Platform (PO) – suggested that the late President Lech Kaczyński was himself to blame for the Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Smolensk, Russia. In the aftermath of the resulting controversy, Palikot announced plans to create his own social movement. On 2 October he organized the "Modern Poland" congress in Warsaw, attended by several thousand. At the congress, Palikot announced his 15-point program. On 6 October, Palikot resigned from PO, along with Kazimierz Kutz.
On 9 January 2011, Palikot gave his MP ID card to the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity to be auctioned off.
On 1 June 2011, Palikot formally registered his movement as a political party called Palikot Movement (RP).
In the October 2011 parliamentary election, the party received 10 percent of the vote and won 40 seats in the Sejm, making it the third party in the chamber behind Civic Platform and Law and Justice (PiS), one of the best debut performances for a party since the end of communism. After the election, one of the MPs of Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Sławomir Kopyciński, decided to leave his party and join Palikot Movement.
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