Geneza akcji wyborczej solidarność

In June 1996, the Polish right-wing parties, which had hitherto been broken up, united thanks to the efforts of Independent Self-governing Trade Union “Solidarity” and formed a political party coalition named Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS). About forty political formations entered the coalition. The AWS platform was based on a social economy market model. The coalition declared to carry out reforms of healthcare and education systems, improve the functioning of courts and initiate a non-political civil service. There were two main goals announced in its foreign policy: obtaining the membership in NATO and the accession to the European Union understood as ‘Europe of Fatherlands’. AWS won the elections in 1997 with the result of 34 per cent of the vote.