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"Mr President, on 17 November 2012, the PSL, the Polish People’s Party, held its 11th Congress. The PSL is a party with an almost 120-year-old history. It arose in a context of opposition and the struggle for freedom and national independence, fighting to improve the living conditions of large numbers of Poles, mainly in the provinces and rural areas. The Polish people’s movement has always put human beings at the centre of its concerns: their living conditions, access to work and education, and equal rights for all.
Our movement was constantly involved in the struggle and campaign for independent Polish statehood. Poland achieved independence in 1918. In 1920, when the Red Army advanced on our country with the aim of conquering not only Poland but the whole of Europe, it was Poland that halted the dangerous westward march of the Soviet Army. The prime minister at the time was the famous populist activist Wincenty Witos, who was three times prime minister in the Polish Government. During the Second World War, the populist movement formed its own army, the Peasant Battalions, numbering over 160 000 troops. When Poland found itself, after the Second World War, in the Eastern bloc as a result of the Yalta agreements, the People’s Party fought for freedom and democracy under the leadership of Stanisław Mikołajczyk. Now, for the past five years, we have been active partners in a coalition government with the Civic Platform, and the newly elected authorities have announced that the PSL will continue to play an active part in the work of the European People’s Party and the Polish Parliament. Thank you very much"@en1
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