Stonoga Polish Party

The Stonoga Polish Party (Polish pronunciation: [stɔˈnɔ.ɡa]; Polish: Stonoga Partia Polska, SPP) was a free-market capitalist political party in Poland, which operated from 27 June 2015 to 1 November 2015. It was founded by businessperson, activist, and internet personality Zbigniew Stonoga.

In December 2014, Zbigniew Stonoga, a businessperson, activist, and internet personality, announced he left from the Congress of the New Right, with intention of creating his own political party, the Stonoga Polish Party, as well as running for president of Poland in the 2015 elections. He also stated the party would not accept former members of the Congress of the New Right and the National Movement.^[1] In January 2015, Stonoga withdrew his party's application for registration, and resigned from running in the elections, instead endorsing Janusz Korwin-Mikke.^[2] In May 2015, Stonoga again announced the creation of his party, with the founding congress taking place on 27 June. Jarosław Gromadzki, a member of the Sejm, who left the Democratic Left Alliance, was involved in the party creation.^[3][4]

As the party missed deadline to be registered, its members run in the 2015 parliamentary election as part of the Zbigniewa Stonoga's Electors Election Committee (Polish: Komitet Wyborczy Wyborców Zbigniewa Stonogi). It registed candidates for the Sejm in 19 of 41 constituencies. Its registration was invalidated in the constituency no. 41 in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, after it was discovered its members forgered signatures in its application.^[5][6] Among party's candidates were Jarosław Gromadzki, former member of parliament Danuta Hojarska, and athlete Rafał Sikora. The party also had one candidate for the Senate.^[5] The District Court in Warsaw registed the party on 14 September 2015.^[7] The Stonoga Polish Party failed to win any seats in Sejm, receiving only 0.28% of votes, ending at the 9th place.^[8] Its only candidate to the Senate also did not win in their constituency.^[9] The party was disbanded on 1 November 2015, soon after the elections.^[10]

During the 2015 parliamentary election, the political promises of the Stonoga Polish Party included:

• baring people from holding public offices, if they held them prior to 1990;
• introducing personal property liability for government clerks and public officials for errors in their work;
• changes to the tax law, including the introduction of a single value-added tax rate of 15% with exemptions for some individuals, exemptions for certain groups from the income tax, and the introduction of the corporate income tax for retail chains and corporations, as well as tax exemption for certain business entities;
• replacement of the National Health Fund with the health insurance fund institutions;
• disestablishing the Social Insurance Institution and the Agricultural Social Insurance Fund, with their founds being moved to private retirement accounts;
• increasing penalties for certain crimes;
• disestablishing the City Guard and the tax inspection authorities, transferring their competences to the Police.^[11]