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The Justice Party, officially the South Indian Liberal Federation, was a political party in the Madras Presidency of British India. It was established in 1916 by T. M. Nair and P. Theagaraya Chetty as a result of a series of non-Brahmin conferences and meetings in the presidency. Communal division between Brahmins and non-Brahmins began in the presidency during the late-19th and early-20th century, mainly due to caste prejudices and disproportionate Brahminical representation in government jobs. The Justice Party's foundation marked the culmination of several efforts to establish an organisation to represent the non-Brahmins in Madras.
During its early years, the party was involved in petitioning the imperial administrative bodies and British politicians demanding more representation for non-Brahmins in government. When a diarchial system of administration was established due to the 1919 Montagu–Chelmsford reforms, the Justice Party took part in presidential governance. In 1920, it won the first direct elections in the presidency and formed the government. For the next seventeen years, it formed four out of the five ministries and was in power for thirteen years. It was the main political alternative to the nationalist Indian National Congress in Madras. After it lost to the Congress in the 1937 election, it never recovered. It came under the leadership of Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy and his Self-Respect Movement. In 1944, Periyar transformed the Justice Party into the social organisation Dravidar Kazhagam and withdrew it from electoral politics. A rebel faction that called itself the original Justice Party, survived to contest one final election, in 1952.
Law and Justice (Polish: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ), abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wingnational-conservativepolitical party in Poland. With 235 seats in the Sejm and 61 in the Senate, it is currently the largest party in the Polish parliament.
The party was founded in 2001 by the Kaczyński twins, Lech and Jarosław. It was formed from part of the Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS), with the Christian democratic Centre Agreement forming the new party's core. The party won the 2005 election, while Lech Kaczyński won the presidency. Jarosław served as Prime Minister, before calling elections in 2007, in which the party came second to Civic Platform (PO). Several leading members, including Lech Kaczyński, died in a plane crash in 2010.
The party programme is dominated by the Kaczyńskis' conservative and law and order agenda. It has embraced economic interventionism, while maintaining a socially conservative stance that in 2005 moved towards the Catholic Church; the party's Catholic-nationalist wing split off in 2011 to form United Poland. The party is solidarist and mildly eurosceptic.
Justice Party is the name of several different political parties around the world:
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Poland (Polish: Polska [ˈpɔlska]), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska, listen ), is a country in Central Europe,bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 71st largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the 34th most populous country in the world, the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, as well as the most populous post-communist member of the European Union. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions.
The establishment of a Polish state can be traced back to 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of a territory roughly coextensive with that of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a longstanding political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. This union formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th and 17th-century Europe. The Commonwealth ceased to exist in the years 1772–1795, when its territory was partitioned among Prussia, the Russian Empire, and Austria. Poland regained its independence (as the Second Polish Republic) at the end of World War I, in 1918.
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Thousands of supporters of Poland's new conservative government have attended a rally in the capitalm as Poland remains locked in a constitutional crisis of the appointment of the judges who would help the government pass its legislative programme. Speaking in front of the constitutional court, Law and Justice party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said the institution needed change. Check out our website: http://uatoday.tv Facebook: https://facebook.com/uatodaytv Twitter: https://twitter.com/uatodaytv
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October 2015's general elections in Poland were won by a hardline Catholic conservative party PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość – or Law and Justice). Its 37 per cent share of the vote hardly spoke of mass support, but it was sufficient to earn it a working majority in both the upper and lower houses of parliament. Since then the country has been plunged into a political crisis that many fear is splitting the country apart – and perhaps even challenging Polish democracy itself. Tens of thousands of people have been on the streets demonstrating for or against the new right wing administration, protests that escalated towards the end of 2015 when the PiS emasculated the country’s constitutional court by replacing 5 independent judges with political appointees and effectively put the court under...
Has Kaczyński snatched the social agenda from the political left? After two political campaigns in 2015, many experts believed that the Law and Justice party would run social policies as previously, similar to the situation a decade earlier, when they promised more social solidarity before the elections. After the elections, however, and seated in a position of power, they instead lowered taxes for the richest. However, this time is different: the conservative government introduced the most generous family policy program since 1989 (the so-called “Family 500+”), lowered retirement age (as promised), increased the minimum wage, and introduced a minimum hourly wage for non-permanent workers. What also came to many as surprise is the surfacing of a challenge to progressive forces in Poland –...
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Discussion with Beata Szydło - Vice-President of Law and Justice party, Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Public Finances, Poland hosted by Michał Wójcik - Chairman of the European Meeting Centre - Nowy Staw Foundation
Discussion with Beata Szydło - Vice-President of Law and Justice party, Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Public Finances, Poland hosted by Michał Wójcik - Chairman of the European Meeting Centre - Nowy Staw Foundation
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The popularity of the Fidesz government in Hungary—as well as the recent election of the Law and Justice Party in Poland and the move of France's Front National from the periphery to the center of French politics— forces us to consider whether Europe is undergoing a wider political right-turn. Experts on the panel will discuss the roots and the implications of the rise of right-wing parties in Hungary, Poland and France. What does that right-turn mean for those respective nations, and, more generally, for Europe?
Poland’s Illiberal Turn and What Can Be Done About It A Conversation with KOD Activist Mateusz Kijowski Polish activist Mateusz Kijowski has been making international headlines for leading the largest civic protest movement in Poland since Lech Walesa’s Solidarity. This talk will feature a conversation with Kijowski to outline a perspective on the constitutional crisis in Poland since the new government of the Law and Justice party took office last year. Kijowski founded the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (Komitet Obrony Demokracji - KOD) in November 2015 in response to the Polish constitutional crisis provoked by the newly elected right-wing government. European Union and international human rights groups have criticized the government of the Law and Justice party for its moves...
Come to see us at Stanford University or watch and ask questions online (instruction soon). (21:00 CEST) More https://www.facebook.com/events/209064162808491/ We invite you to participate in an exploration of recent political events in Poland. Since the nationalist right-wing “PIS” (Law and Justice) party took power several months ago, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets every weekend in Poland in protest. Democracy is threatened in Poland, as the new government seeks to weaken constitutional protections and consolidate their power. As America’s election approaches, it is impossible not to draw parallels between the nationalistic right-wing movements in Europe and the emergence of “fringe” candidates as the most likely Republican presidential nominees. Let’s come toget...
The European Parliament (EP) is set to debate Poland’s new media law during a plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday, January 19. Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo will take part in the debate. Poland has received widespread criticism in recent weeks over a controversial media law that allows the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party to appoint the heads and civil service directors of state-owned media broadcasters, with EU media watchdogs arguing that the new law jeopardises press freedom. Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv Contact: cd@ruptly.tv Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly LiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/c/Ruptly Vine: https://vine.co/Ruptly Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Ruptly YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/...
In October 2015, the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) won an absolute majority in the Polish Parliament. With surprising speed and aggressiveness, the new government passed laws that have paralyzed the Supreme Court, re-politicized the civil service, and subordinated public radio and TV to direct to government control. It has also launched a frontal assault on the last 25 years of Polish history and is clearly attempting to rebrand the period as the illegitimate child of a morally reprehensible compromise. Most recently, it has moved to ban all abortions. PiS’ radical turn towards illiberalism has provoked a series of stern, but so far toothless reprimands from the European Union. At the same time, increasingly large numbers of Poles are taking to the streets in protest. In this talk...