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((Infobox political party
| name             = Confederation of Independent Poland
| native_name      = Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej
| colorcode        = ((party color|Confederation of Independent Poland))
| logo             = File:Logo_of_Konfederacja_Polski_Niepodległej.svg
| leader           = [[Leszek Moczulski]] (first)
Adam Słomka (current)
| founder          = Leszek Moczulski
| foundation       = 1 September 1979<br>2007 ''(reformed)''
| dissolved        = 2003<br>2018 ''(reformed)''
| ideology         = [[Polish nationalism]]<br />[[Sanation]]ism<br />[[Anti-communism]]
| position         = [[Right-wing]]
| youth_wing       = 
| headquarters     = Osiedle Oświecenia 44/44, 31-636 [[Kraków]]
| international    = 
| country          = Poland
| colours          = Red, white
| seats1_title     = [[Sejm of the Republic of Poland|Sejm]]
| seats1           = ((Composition bar|0|460|((party color|Confederation of Independent Poland))))
| seats2_title     = [[Senate of the Republic of Poland|Senate]]
| seats2           = ((Composition bar|0|100|((party color|Confederation of Independent Poland))))
| seats3_title     = [[European Parliament]]
| seats3           = ((Composition bar|0|51|((party color|Confederation of Independent Poland))))
))
'''Confederation of Independent Poland''' (KPN, ((lang-pl|Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej)) ((IPA-pol|kɔnfɛdɛˈratsja ˈpɔlskʲi ɲɛpɔˈdlɛɡɫɛj))) was a [[Polish nationalism|Polish nationalist]]<ref name="Bugajski1995">((cite book|author=Janusz Bugajski|title=Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: A Guide to Nationality Policies, Organizations, and Parties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_AcqFSfvzAC&pg=PA464|year=1995|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-1911-2|pages=464–))</ref> [[political party]] founded on 1 September 1979 by [[Leszek Moczulski]] and others declaring support for the pre-war traditions of [[Sanacja]] and [[Józef Piłsudski]].

It was the first independent political party that was publicly proclaimed in the [[Eastern Bloc]], it was however unrecognized by the communist [[People's Republic of Poland]] government and its chief activists were arrested several times. It didn't participate in the [[Polish Roundtable Negotiations]] with the communists.

== History ==

=== Foundation ===
[[File:Leszek Moczulski 1978 1980.jpg|left|thumb|Party leader Leszek Moczulski with images of Pope John Paul II and Józef Piłsudski in the background]]
After the fragmentation of the anti-communist ROPCiO (Movement for the protection of human and civil rights), former leader Leszek Moczulski began preparing structures for a new organization with other independence activists, most importantly [[Romuald Szeremietiew]] and Tadeusz Stański. It was decided that the new organization would be a Confederation (that is how parties in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were called) of many different groupings of [[Piłsudskiite]] and [[Sanation]] tradition. This new organization declared continuity with the 1913 Komisja Tymczasowych Skonfederowanych Stronnict Niepodległościowych.<ref>((Cite news |last=Waligóra |first=Gregorz |date=2019-09-09 |title=Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej 1979-1989 |work=Przystanek Historia |url=https://przystanekhistoria.pl/pa2/tematy/konfederacja-polski-nie/53677,Konfederacja-Polski-Niepodleglej-1979-1989.html |access-date=2022-11-05))</ref>
[[File:Romuald Szeremietiew Sejm 2015.JPG|thumb|Founding member Romuald Szeremietiew in 2015]]
Leszek Moczulski wrote the founding document of the new party - A revolution without a revolution, which was a reference to [[Józef Piłsudski|Piłsudski's]] concept of a "revolution without revolutionary consequences".<ref>((Cite news |last=Gontarczyk |first=Piotr |date=2022-05-26 |title=Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej – historia i przesłanie dla współczesności |work=Polskie Radio Trójka |url=https://trojka.polskieradio.pl/artykul/2967109,Konfederacja-Polski-Niepodleglej-historia-i-przeslanie-dla-wspolczesnosci |access-date=2022-11-05))</ref> The party would officially be established on the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 2, on 1 September 1979 during celebrations in front of the ruins of the [[Saxon Palace]], the [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw|Tomb of the Unknown Soldier]], a symbol for pre-war independent Poland.

The founding "Act of the Confederation of Independent Poland" was signed by 35 founding members of the party. 20 of these founding members were arrested that same day by the communist dictatorship, the other 15 followed in the same week. The party would be the first independent party founded in the communist eastern bloc.

On 17 September 1979 Leszek Moczulski was elected the leader of the party, at a meeting in Moczulski's department. The meeting was interrupted by the communist Polish [[Ministry of Public Security (Poland)|Security Service]] and most of the participants were arrested.

=== Further Development and Opposition ===
With the election of Leszek Moczulski, the KPN had a unique position. It would organize central administrations for each of Poland's regions and set voievodes for each, bearing similarity to the wartime [[Home Army|Armia Krajowa]]. The party newspaper was called "Droga" and was in direct tradition with the pre-war Piłsudskiite newspaper "[[Gazeta Polska (1929–1939)|Gazeta Polska]]".<ref name=":0">((Cite news |last=Szukała |first=Michał |date=2019-09-01 |title=40 lat temu powstała Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej |work=Dzieje.pl |url=https://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/40-lat-temu-powstala-konfederacja-polski-niepodleglej |access-date=2022-11-05))</ref>
[[File:Zal.0003.jpg|thumb|The KPN during independence demonstrations next to the Wawel Castle. On the banner Piłsudski is recognizable.]]
Another important reference to Piłsudski's Second Polish Republic were the independence anniversary celebrations celebrated on 11 November 1979 in Kraków, carrying banners with Piłsudski through the old capital. Such celebrations were organized throughout the entire communist period from then on and would often end with intervention of the communist [[Milicja Obywatelska|Citizen's Militia]] and mass arrests.<ref name=":0" />

Party leader Leszek Moczulski, together with founding member Romuald Szeremietiew and others, were arrested and sentenced to prison for allegedly wanting to overthrow the communist government in 1981, but were released in 1984 with amnesty. After the declaration of [[Martial law in Poland|Martial Law]] by General [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]], head of the [[Polish United Workers' Party|Polish United Worker's Party]], the arrests of KPN members increased drastically.<ref name=":0" />

The Confederacy had contacts to the [[Polish government-in-exile|government of the pre-war Second Polish Republic]], which went into exile during the Second World War. [[President of Poland|President-in-exile]] [[Kazimierz Sabbat]] invited the activists to [[London]], where they would meet the President.

In the 1980s the Confederacy of Independent Poland continued activities alongside the rising Solidarity movement until the Communist dictatorship ended in 1989 and the Polish government-in-exile returned from exile in London.

=== After the Fall of Communism ===
After the [[fall of communism]], Leszek Moczulski was a candidate in the elections for [[Polish president]], but got only 2.5% of votes in the [[1990 Polish presidential election|1990 presidential election]] and withdrew during the following one. In the [[1991 Polish parliamentary election|1991 parliamentary election]] the party got 7.5% of the vote, while in the [[1993 Polish parliamentary election|1993 parliamentary election]] it received 5.7%.
[[File:Adam Słomka Sejm 2016.jpg|left|thumb|Adam Słomka, the current head of the KPN.]]
In 1996 it suffered a split, with the ((Interlanguage link|Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej – Obóz Patriotyczny|pl)) faction under ((Interlanguage link|Adam Słomka|pl)) leaving KPN. KPN then joined [[Solidarity Electoral Action]], but left it in 1997, before the [[1997 Polish parliamentary election|1997 parliamentary election]], in which it didn't participate. For the 2001 parliamentary elections, it allied itself with [[Solidarity Electoral Action|Solidarity Electoral Action of the Right]] (AWSP), but its candidates got 0.08% and the AWSP (which got 5.6%) failed to elect a single representative (the threshold was 8%).

In 2003 Leszek Moczulski dissolved the KPN, while Słomka declared his KPN-OP the main KPN and gathered some members of the now-disbanded Moczulski's KPN. The party has been re-registered with the Polish authorities in 2007 and took part in the [[2009 European Parliament election in Poland|2009 European parliament elections]].

The party is active today under the leadership of Adam Słomka. The main goals of the party are the decommunization of the Polish courts and the preparation for an [[Intermarium|Intermarium Federation]], as Piłsudski envisioned it. 
[[File:Legion Polski w Ukrainie - Adam Słomka w otoczeniu żołnierzy i oficerów Armii Ukraińskiej w Kijowie.jpg|alt=Adam Słomka amidst soldiers and officers of the Ukrainian Army in Kiev 2022|thumb|The Polish Legion in Ukraine]]
After the outbreak of the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022]], Adam Słomka gathered voulenteers and formed the paramilitary Polish Legion in Kraków, which in reference to [[Polish Legions in World War I|Piłsudski's legions]] marched from the Oleandry avenue. Adam Słomka's Polish Legion left for Ukraine, where they are helping with the war effort.

== Election results ==

=== Sejm ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Election year
!# of
votes
! % of
vote
!# of
overall seats won
!+/–
|-
![[1991 Polish parliamentary election|1991]]
|841,738
|7.5 (#6)
|((Composition bar|46|460|hex=((party color|Confederation of Independent Poland))))
| -
|-
![[1993 Polish parliamentary election|1993]]
|795,487
|5.77 (#6)
|((Composition bar|22|460|hex=((party color|Confederation of Independent Poland))))
|((decrease)) 24
|}

===Senate===
{| class="wikitable"
!Election year
!# of
votes
! % of
vote
!# of
overall seats won
!+/–
|-
![[1991 Polish parliamentary election|1991]]
|1,071,364
|4.67 (#8)
|((Composition bar|4|100|hex=((party color|Confederation of Independent Poland))))
| -
|-
![[1993 Polish parliamentary election|1993]]
|1,646,654
|6.04 (#6)
|((Composition bar|0|100|hex=((party color|Confederation of Independent Poland))))
|((decrease)) 4
|}

==See also==
*[[Federation of Fighting Youth]]
*[[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]]
*[[Nonpartisan Bloc for Support of Reforms]]

==References==
((Reflist))
((Polish political parties))
((Authority control))

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[[Category:Anti-communism in Poland]]
[[Category:Anti-communist parties]]
[[Category:Defunct political parties in Poland]]
[[Category:History of Poland (1989–present)]]
[[Category:Nationalist parties in Poland]]
[[Category:Polish dissident organisations]]
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