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Confederation of the Polish Crown
Political party in Poland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Confederation of the Polish Crown (Polish: Konfederacja Korony Polskiej, KKP), often shortened to The Crown (Korona), is a far-right[5] political party in Poland. The party was founded by Grzegorz Braun as a personal political vehicle. As such, the party and its views largely stem from Braun's own personal positions.[6]
It has been described as ultranationalist and traditionalist,[7] and the party advocates for Jesus Christ to be "enthroned" as the "King" of Poland.[8] The party's goals are to "fight for the good of Poland, secure the sovereignty of the Polish State, defend Poland's Catholic faith, ensure that Polish families are prosperous, and help shape social life based on the principles of Latin civilization".[9]
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Formation (2019–2022)
The origin of Korona can be traced to an organization Braun founded in 2015 called Pobudka (lit. 'wake up call'). A network of Braun's supporters across 41 constituencies, Braun would formally transform his base into KKP in time for the 2019 Sejm election where he would win Constituency no. 23 in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship.[10][11] The party's founding congress would be held on 7 September 2019, where Braun had one of his supporters, Włodzimierz Skalik, installed as the party's vice president (with Braun being president) and general secretary.[2] The party would be officially registered by Polish courts on 24 January 2020.[12]
At its formation, the party had been in a coalition with KORWiN, later known as New Hope, and the National Movement called Confederation.[13]
Braun was the Korona candidate in the 2020 Confederation presidential primary.[14] He lost to Krzysztof Bosak during the final round of voting and then immediately endorsed his candidacy.[15]
Braun has been described as a far-right politician,[16][17] anti-vaccination activist,[18] and antisemite.[19]
Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–2025)
Braun is often accused of pro-Russian rhetoric.[20] In June 2022, Braun and few other members of the party co-signed a pro-Russian declaration stating that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a consequence of NATO enlargement, as well as Ukrainian language laws that "discriminated against the Russian minority". The party called for an end to the war through the conclusion of a "compromise between Russia and Ukraine".[21] Then in September 2022, Braun participated in an anti-Ukrainian protest, in which he made the following statement: "Stop the Ukrainianisation of Poland. Stop the de-Polonisation of Poland. It is about making Poland Polish." This statement was later aired by the state-owned Russian television channel Russia-1. In response to backlash, the party doubled down on Braun's statement; Jacek Ćwięka, the personal assistant of Grzegorz Braun, stated: "And this is the success of our action, which the leftists and liberals can only envy us! There is nothing else left for them."[22]
Expulsion from Confederation (2025–present)
Braun would again seek the Confederation nomination in the 2025 presidential election, however, instead of a US-styled primary which the coalition had run in 2019 to determine its candidate, the Council of Leaders (which Braun is a member of) chose to nominate Sławomir Mentzen from New Hope even though Braun had support from Janusz Korwin-Mikke.[23] Despite this Braun would push ahead with his own candidacy stating "I will be a candidate in this election, with God and human help."[23] Due to his rejection of a ruling from the leadership council the internal coalition court would vote in favor of expelling Braun and Korona from Confederation entirely on 17 January 2025.[23] Braun, who did not attend the ruling, refused to appeal.[23]
During the campaign, Braun and KKP were consistently given 2-4% in polls, but would outperform these polls on election day, earning 6.34% of the electorate or 1,242,917 votes. This, combined with Mentzen and Confederation also outperforming polls, surprised many because if all Confederation and KKP voters voted for the Law and Justice candidate Karol Nawrocki, he would have won the first round with 50.69% of the vote.[24] This is almost exactly what happened on election day, as Nawrocki won 50.89% of the vote in what was described as an upset,[25] with 92.6% of Braun and 87.2% of Mentzen voters that turned out in the second round voting for him.[26]
Creation of parliamentary circle
On 4 June 2025, the Confederation of the Polish Crown announced the creation of its own parliamentary circle in the Sejm, composed of Roman Fritz, Włodzimierz Skalik and Sławomir Zawiślak. Fritz and Skalik, elected on the list of Confederation Liberty and Independence in the 2023 election, left their party in March 2025 and joined Braun's party as independent MPs. However, since Braun is a MEP and not an MP of the Polish Sejm, his party fell short of three MPs - a minimum amount of MPs needed to form a parliamentary circle.[27] In June 2025, Zawiślak, an MP of Law and Justice, left his party and defected to Braun, granting the Confederation of the Polish Crown its third MP and thus allowing it to found its own parliamentary circle.[28]
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Monarchism
Despite the party's name, Korona does not seek the restoration of the Kingdom of Poland or any royal dynasty and is therefore not a monarchist political party. Instead the party seeks to "enthrone Christ as King of Poland" as part of the so-called "enthronement movement" which was established by Polish Americans in Chicago which financed "Radio of Christ the King" as the movement's main organ which Braun appears on and the party regularly collaborates with. The network has been heavily criticized for allowing known pedophiles on the air including Piotr Glas. In 2012 the Polish Episcopal Conference rebuffed the movement, saying "thinking that it is enough to call Christ the King of Poland, and everything will change for the better, must be considered illusory, even harmful to the understanding and realization of Christ’s salvation in the world." The party had been trying to get Archbishop Andrzej Dzięga to break ranks from the conference and perform an enthronement ceremony himself but he resigned from his position after an internal church investigation into mismanagement in 2024.[8] However, by 2013 the conference formed a committee to look into "intronization" and worked with lay groups both in Poland and among Polish Americans to draft a "Jubilee Act of Acceptance of Jesus Christ as King and Lord".[29]
Catholicism
Catholicism has been a key part of the party and Braun's own personal ideology, despite being denounced by the Catholic Church in Poland.[8] Braun states that he emphasizes the Catholic aspect of his ideology because there are too many "pagans" that submit to "tribal chauvinism" among the other nationalist and libertarian circles.[2] Braun also stated that personal freedom, liberty, and the concept of nations as a whole would've been impossible without the Catholic Church and Latin civilization.[2]
Freemasonry
In the party's charter, Freemasons are forbidden from joining.[2]
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