Your Movement
political party in Poland
Your Movement (Polish: Twój Ruch, which can also be translated as Your Move, TR) was a social liberal, neoliberal and anti-clerical political party in Poland. The party was founded by Janusz Palikot, a former Civic Platform MP, in October 2010 as Palikot's Movement (Polish: Ruch Palikota, RP). The party was classified as a right-wing, centre-right, centrist, centre-left, or a left-wing party in the context of Polish politics, one which was "struggling with its political identity and finding it difficult to decide whether it was really a left-wing party at all or more of an economically and socially liberal centrist grouping."
It combined "a liberal approach both to matters of world-view and to free market solutions". Palikot's Movement wanted to end religious education in state schools, end state subsidies of churches, legalize abortion on demand, lower the voting age to 16, give out free condoms, allow same-sex marriages, switch to the mixed-member proportional representation system, reform the Social Security Agency, abolish the Senate, legalize cannabis, raise the retirement age, replace free university programs with tuition-based paid ones, and implement flat taxes. The party adopted its revised name and programme on 6 October 2013.
History
Origins
The party was founded by Janusz Palikot, a Polish millionaire who served as the MP of Civic Platform between 2005 and 2010. During his mandate, he became known for controversial and eccentric stunts; in 2007, he appeared on a television program wearing a t-shirt that read "I am a gay". He also attacked his own party on LGBT issues, arguing that its inaction was more detrimental to LGBT rights than socially conservative parties such as League of Polish Families and Law and Justice were. The same year, he made a press conference wielding a toy gun and a dildo. He would frequently accuse political opponents of being closeted homosexuals, including accusing Roman Giertych of having a "suppressed homosexual passion" and offering 50,000 PLN for anyone who could prove Giertych's purported homosexuality.
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