National Party of Retirees and Pensioners (, KPEiR) is a minor left-wing political party in Poland. The main goal of KPEiR is protecting retired seniors, pensioners and trust-busting. The current leader (Prezes, President in English) is former Sejm Member Tomasz Mamiński.
KPEiR was founded in 1994. However, the party lost the parliamentary election in 1997 winning just 284 826 votes (2.18%) and no seat in Sejm and Senate. During municipal elections of 1998 KPEiR, allied with Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Polish People's Party (PSL) and Labor Union (UP) won some seats. During the 2001 parliamentary election KPEiR run in coalition with SLD, UP and Democratic Party. Coalition won the election in a landslide and SLD/UP formed the government together with PSL. Tomasz Mamiński, the party leader, had won a Sejm seat in Warsaw.
However, Mamiński was expelled from Parliamentary club of SLD after scandal in Sejm restaurant. Then he joined Federacyjny Klub Parlamentarny, which included various Sejm members from various parties. Party did not run in 2005 and 2007 parliamentary election and didn't endorsed any other list. Their future is unclear.
History
In the second half of 1991, parties for pensioners began to emerge independently in Poland. By the end of 1993 there were 7 large entities. On 20 November 1993 the four largest - the Polish Pensioners' and Annuitants' Party in Bydgoszcz, the Polish Pensioners' and Annuitants' Protection Party in Łódź, the Polish Pensioners' and Annuitants' Party "Jedność" in Konin and the Pensioners' and Annuitants' Party in Koszalin - concluded an agreement on their unification. The unification congress took place on 4-5 June 1994 in Przysiek.
In the 1995 Polish presidential election, the party supported Tadeusz Zieliński (ombudsman, Union of Labour candidate).
The leaders of the NAPE in 1997 were (according to the nationwide list of parliamentary candidates): Zenon Rumiński (party leader), Jerzy Marek, Lucjan Patyk, Tomasz Mamiński and Eugeniusz Demski. In its early days, the NAPE was seen as a support organisation for the SLD (the so-called second type of power party), which led to the formation of a rival right-wing "pensioners' party" under the name Krajowe Porozumienie Emerytów i Rencistów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Before the elections, two former right-wing MPs joined the NAPP: Tadeusz Gąsienica-Łuszczek (elected from the KPN list) and Paweł Saar (elected from the BBWR list). In the 1997 Polish parliamentary election KPEiR (electoral committee registered in all 52 electoral districts) received 284,826 votes, or 2.18% support, and did not enter parliament.
The new party chairman was Tomasz Mamiński. In the 1998 Polish local elections, the KPEiR party entered into an electoral agreement with the PSL and the Labour Union, under the name Przymierze Społeczne.
In 2000, the CPSU cooperated with the newly formed Polish Economic Union. In the 2000 Polish presidential election, it supported Aleksander Kwaśniewski, who was running for re-election.
The 2001 Polish parliamentary election brought the first success - party leader Tomasz Mamiński became an MP from the list of the SLD-UP coalition, and in addition the NAPE received a one-off subsidy from the state budget in the amount of PLN 1,889,650.14 and an annual subsidy for statutory activities (2002 - PLN 704,982; 2003 - PLN 1 007 117; 2004 - PLN 1 973 409; 2005 - PLN 1 973 409).
However, already in 2002, MP Tomasz Mamiński was excluded from the SLD club. As a result, KPEiR ran on its own in the 2002 Polish local elections and won 127,299 votes, i.e. 1.14% of the support, failing to win seats in the sejmiki voivodship. Unexpectedly, in the simultaneous election for Mayor of the Capital City of Warsaw, Tomasz Mamiński supported the PO candidate - Andrzej Olechowski, who dropped out already in the first round of the election.
In the 2004 European Parliament election in Poland The EPP co-founded an electoral agreement under the name Coalition Electoral Committee of the EPP-PLD, for which 48,667 voters, or 0.8% of the electorate, voted.
In the 2005 Polish parliamentary election, after breaking its short-lived alliance with Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland, the NDP established its own election committee, which was however dissolved. Eventually, the party ran on the lists of the Ogólnopolska Koalicja Obywatelska.