Stanowiska i deklaracje przywódców partii politycznych w Polsce wobec religii
Leaders of political parties in Poland on religious issues – their stance and declarations

Summary/Abstract: This is a comparative study of the parliamentary utterances delivered by fifteen different leaders of the four main political parties in Poland (PiS, PO, PSL, SLD) on matters relating to religion in the years 1991-2015. Religion as such rarely made it into their sphere of interest, judging from the frequency of their remarks on it (62 out of total 3,795). Most instances belong to the politicians from SLD and PSL (28 and 20 times respectively). Leaders of PiS and PO mentioned religion 8 and 6 times respectively. Among leaders most often touching on aspects relating to religion were J. Oleksy (13 times, amounting to 5,8% of his parliamentary utterances) and L. Miller (11 times, that is, 2,6 of his total utterances). Five leaders, namely L. Kaczyński, M. Płażyński, R. Bartoszcze, J. Wojciechowski and K. Janik did not mention religion at all. Analysis of the remarks on religion by political leaders indicates their generally positive or neutral attitude to religious issues. The positive utterances would come mostly from the leaders of PiS, PO and PSL. Leaders of SLD would rather express their neutral attitude, and not a negative, or hostile one.

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