Talk:List of political parties in Poland

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It is Wikipedia policy that party articles should have English titles. When I get time I will move all these articles to English names. Adam 05:36, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm not aware of such a policy. We use common names whether that be a translation or transliteration. --Jia ng 06:36, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I suppose that is the policy I meant. In an English-language encyclopaedia the "common name" for a Polish political party will always be the English name. Adam 06:59, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

LPR certainly isn't a right wing party, just look at their program to see that beneath a shallow façde of social conservatism they're classical socialists, hoping to create a wellfare state.

Right-wing and left-wing labels are not absolute and difficult to define. LPR considers themselves to be right-wing, and LPR MPs seat on the right-wing part of Polish Parliament. I think the problem is there are hundreds of parties who think we are the true right-wingers and everybidy alse is left-wing, even is they pretend not to be. PolishPoliticians 05:41, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

That's why in the earlier version only the mainstream parties that fit can be nicely classified in Left-Right politics were stated as such. There is no reasonable doubt that the post-communists are left-wing and Platforma Obywatelska or Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc are right-wing, but trying to squeeze Liga Polskich Rodzin into one of those catagorise is intrinsically POV.

It's very doubtfull to clasify Platforma as a rightist party, especially after defection of Maciej Plazynski, PO is a typical centrist party, 3/4 of PO members are former UW members, clasifying themselves as centrist PolishPoliticians 09:39, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

And yet, it's PO that openly talks about the need for a quick liberalization of the economy, whilst the allegedly righter PiS speaks about doing it in a socialy conscious manner. I think we should just indicate where they lie in the poltical spectrum, characterize them in a few words and place the more detailed analyses in the articles about the specific parties.

[edit] PiS

PiS is not a filo-europian party. It's eruosceptic. It's member of Europen Union of Nations a European Coalition of Eurosceptic Parties.

PiS has a important group of Eurosceptics. Another point: Radio Maryja it's a europhobic radio station.

Prawo i Sprawiedliwość isn't an euroenthusiatic party.

On a related note, the labels "Euro-phile" or even "Euro-enthusiastic" are extremely dubious. There has never been a party that was truly "enthusiastic" about Polish EU membership, with the possible exception of the Freedom Union. I'm going to change this. --Thorsten1 13:41, 4 July 2006 (UTC)