Sanation

Sanacja

Members

Józef Piłsudski

Ignacy Mościcki

Józef Beck

Tadeusz Hołówko

Janusz Jędrzejewicz

Wacław Jędrzejewicz

Adam Koc

Leon Kozłowski

Ignacy Matuszewski

Bogusław Miedziński

Bronisław Pieracki

Aleksander Prystor

Edward Rydz-Śmigły

Adam Skwarczyński

Walery Sławek

Kazimierz Świtalski

Sanation (Polish: Sanacja, pronounced [saˈnat͡sja]) was a Polish political movement that was created in the interwar period, prior to Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 Coup d'État, and came to power in the wake of that coup. In 1928 its political activists would go on to form the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government ("BBWR").

The Sanation movement took its name from Piłsudski's aspirations for a moral "" (healing) of the Polish body politic. The movement functioned integrally until Piłsudski's death in 1935. Following Marshall Piłsudski's death, Sanation split into several competing factions, including "the Castle" (President Ignacy Mościcki and his partisans).

Sanation, which advocated authoritarian rule, rested on a circle of Piłsudski's close associates, including Walery Sławek, Aleksander Prystor, Kazimierz Świtalski, Janusz Jędrzejewicz, Adam Koc, Józef Beck, Tadeusz Hołówko, and Edward Rydz-Śmigły. It preached the primacy of the national interest in governance, and contended against the system of parliamentary democracy.