Leader Paweł Kukiz Political position Right-wing | Founded May 2015 Sejm 33 / 460 | |
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Headquarters ul. Nowy Świat 39
00-029 Warsaw Ideology Civic nationalism
Conservative liberalism
Right-wing populism
Anti-establishment
Euroscepticism | ||
Kukiz'15 is a right-wing political party in Poland led by punk rock musician Paweł Kukiz. It is an association, which is not registered as a political party.
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Political Positions
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History
The movement was founded after Kukiz stood in the 2015 presidential election, winning 21% of the vote and coming in third during the election's first round. Kukiz's primary issue during the election was the replacement of Poland's proportional representation electoral system with single member constituencies, which was the subject of a referendum in September 2015.
The movement is particularly popular among young people: Kukiz won 42% among voters aged 18 to 29 in the 2015 presidential election.
In the 2015 parliamentary election Kukiz'15 cooperated with the far-right National Movement, which gained 5 of Kukiz' 42 parliamentary seats.
On April 2016 National Movement management decided to leave Kukiz'15, but only one Member of Parliament (MP) followed party instructions. These ones, who stayed in Kukiz'15, together with a few other Kukiz' MPs, formed National Democracy (Endecja).
There was a Sejm scandal in April 2016. Kornel Morawiecki of Kukiz'15 left his Sejm member card in the voting device when he felt sick and went out from the debating hall and then Małgorzata Zwiercan voted for him. After this he left Kukiz'15 and launched a new party Freedom and Solidarity (Wolni i Solidarni) along with two other Kukiz'15 MPs.
On February 2017 three Kukiz'15 MPs left the party and became a parliamentary representation of the association Republicans (Republikanie).