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Poland's communist successor party won power repeatedly after 1989 collapse

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aliases@grzymala-busse_redeeming_2002, loc. 53

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Poland’s communist successor party won power repeatedly after 1989 collapse

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The Polish successor party, the Social Democracy of Poland (Socjaldemokracja Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, SdRP), became the electoral darling of East Central Europe. Its turnaround was stunning – the party lost every seat it could in the semifree elections in 1989, but then went on to win elections only four years later, with 20% of the vote in 1993. Nor was the party’s popularity hurt by its stay in office – in the next elections, in 1997, the SdRP actually gained voters, unlike any other incumbent in the region. In 2001, the party again won the elections, this time with an astounding 41% of the vote. However, in parliament, the SdRP suffered continued exclusion by parliamentary parties with roots in the former anticommunist opposition. In 1993, it could form a coalition only with the heir to a pre-1989 communist satellite organization, the Peasants’ Party (PSL). — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 53

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  • XREF: Direct empirical anchor for the reader’s core question — this successor party survived by shedding ideology for competence, relevant to the 1989-threat-removal comparison. — connects to: Successor party resurgence combined post-1989 conditions, communist legacies, and crafted appeals — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 1197; Polish successor party victories did not rest on a traditional left working-class electorate — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 1148; Parties linked to hated collapsed regimes unexpectedly regained power — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 55 (+2 more)

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