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   Major and minor fascist-nationalist European  Political Parties and Organizations:

-Poland:League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin, LPR)
Organizations:All Polish Youth (Młodzież Wszechpolska)

MP, constituency

Przemysław Andrejuk 
Witold Bałażak 
Krzysztof Bosak 
Edward Ciągło 
Marian Daszyk(- X 2006) 
Janusz Dobrosz 
Andrzej Fedorowicz 
Roman Giertych 
Witold Hatka 
Jan Jarota 
Marek Kawa 
Janusz Kołodziej 
Marek Kotlinowski 
Bogusław Kowalski (- IV 2006) 
Andrzej Mańka 
Arnold Masin 
Gabriela Masłowska (- IV 2006) 
Halina Murias 
Leszek Murzyn 
Mirosław Orzechowski (IV 2006 -) 
Edward Ośko 
Radosław Parda 
Daniel Pawłowiec 
Szymon Pawłowski 
Elżbieta Ratajczak 
Bogusław Sobczak 
Anna Sobecka (to II 2006) 
Antoni Sosnowski 
Ewa Sowińska(- III 2006) 
Robert Strąk 
Piotr Ślusarczyk 
Rafał Wiechecki 
Wojciech Wierzejski 
Zygmunt Wrzodak(- X 2005) 
Stanisław Zadora 

Members of Polish Parliament (Sejm) (2001-2005)
MP, constituency

Janusz Dobrosz, Wrocław 
Andrzej Fedorowicz, Białystok 
Roman Giertych, Warszawa 
Grzegorz G�rniak, Wałbrzych 
Stanisław Gudzowski, Gorz�w Wielkopolski - Zielona G�ra 
Witold Hatka, Bydgoszcz 
Zbigniew Jacyna-Onyszkiewicz, Poznań 
Zdzisław Jankowski, Konin 
Ryszard Kędra, Krosno 
Marek Kotlinowski, Krak�w 
Zofia Krasicka-Domka, Nowy Sącz 
Andrzej Mańka, Lublin 
Gabriela Masłowska, Lublin 
Halina Murias, Rzesz�w 
Leszek Murzyn, Chrzan�w 
Stanisław Papież, Krak�w 
Elżbieta Ratajczak, Kalisz 
Ewa Sowińska, Ł�dź 
J�zef Skowyra, Piła 
Anna Sobecka, Toruń 
Robert Strąk, Gdynia 
Stanisław Szyszkowski, Kielce 
Zenon Tyma, Opole 
Zygmunt Wrzodak, Rzesz�w 
Stanisław Zadora, Bielsko-Biała 

League of Polish Families - Electoral Committee
Except for LPR party members, the electoral committee consisted of several political parties and groups that formed separate parliamentary caucuses in Polish parliament:

Ruch Katolicko-Narodowy, leader: Antoni Macierewicz 
Dom Ojczysty, leader: Piotr Krutul 
Porozumienie Polskie, leader: Jan Łopuszański 
Ruch Odbudowy Polski, leader: Jan Olszewski 

Members of Polish Senate (2005 -)

Ryszard Bender, Lublin 
Adam Biela, Chełm 
Janusz Kubiak, Piła 
Waldemar Kraska, Siedlce 
Mieczysław Maziarz, Rzesz�w 
Jan Szafraniec, Białystok 
Ludwik Zalewski, Białystok 

Members of Polish Senate (2001-2005)

Adam Biela 
Ryszard Matusiak - 11/07/2004 by-elections in Jelenia G�ra/Legnica constituency, LPR caucus secretary 
Jan Szafraniec - Senate LPR caucus chairman 
Zofia Skrzypek-Mrowiec 
J�zef Sztorc - Senate LPR caucus vice-chairman 

Members of the European Parliament

Filip Adwent, physician and author 
Sylwester Chruszcz, architect and politician 
Maciej Giertych, dendrologist, politician and publicist 
Dariusz Grabowski, economist, politician and businessman 
Urszula Krupa, doctor of medicine, journalist 
Mirosław Piotrowski, professor of history 
Bogdan Pęk, zootechnologist and politician 
Bogusław Rogalski, historian, farmer and political activist 
Witold Tomczak, physician and politician 
Wojciech Wierzejski (now, he is a member of the Polish Parliament), politician and sociologist 

-Slovakia:Slovak Nationalist Party (Slovensk� n�rodn� strana, SNS)

Results of the general elections to Slovak parliament

1990: 13.94% 
1992: 7.93% 
1994: 5.4% 
1998: 9.07% 
2002: 3.65% for PSNS, 3.32% for SNS 
2006: 11.6% 
In the parliamentary election of 17 June 2006, the party won 11.6% of the popular vote and 20 out of 150 seats.

-Bulgaria:Bulgarian National Patriotic Party (Balgarska Nacionalna-Patrioticna Partija)
National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland (Nacionalno Dvi�enie za Spasenie na Otecestvoto)
Union of Patriotic Forces and Militaries of the Reserve Zashtita (Sajuz na Patrioticnite Sili i Voinite ot Zapaca Zac�ita)

*All three Bulgarian Parties are part of the National Union Attack (Nacionalno Obedinenie Ataka) that won at the last legislative elections, 25 June 2005, 9.0 % of the popular vote and 22 out of 240 seats.

-Romania:The Greater Romania Party (Partidul Rom�nia Mare, PRM)

After 1992's elections, PRM polled less than 4% of the vote and won 22 seats in Romanian legislative and it was part of the governmental coalition (the Red Quadrilateral) between 1993 and 1995. 

At the elections of 1996, PRM and Tudor polled less than 5% of the vote, still achieving 27 seats in Romanian legislative assemblies. 

After the elections in 2000, PRM was the second-largest party in the Romanian parliament. The party polled 23% of the vote, winning 126 seats in both of the Romanian legislative assemblies. In the presidential elections, Tudor polled 33% of the popular vote, being defeated after the second ballot by Ion Iliescu. 

In 2004 Vadim Tudor scored third, with 12.57% of the vote, while PRM scored 13.2%. 

-Germany:National Democratic Party of Germany (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, NPD)

*Most recently, after making large gains in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party now has 6 seats in the Landtag (state parliament).

-Belgium:Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest)

*The Vlaams Belang took part in the 2006 municipal elections on the theme of "Secure, Flemish, Liveable."

In Antwerp, the Vlaams Belang lost out to the Socialist Party at the municipal level, although for all districts, except for Center and Borgerhout, the VB showed an increase of its voters share. In two districts, Hoboken and Deurne, VB enjoys a plurality; in the former district, the other parties will have to work together with the marxist-leninist Workers Party (PVDA) in order to obtain a majority in the district council, although another party, the N-VA, has ruled out such a coalition.
In the rest of Flanders, the Vlaams Belang, like the CD&V, enjoyed a massive increase of votes (the number of VB council members almost doubled, from 439 to about 800). In Aalst and Schoten, Vlaams Belang enjoys a plurality. Although it is unlikely that any party in these or other cities will break the cordon sanitaire.

In 1999, the Vlaams Blok obtained 584,392 votes for the European Parliament elections. In 2004, the party obtained 930,731 votes.
-Austria: Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei �sterreichs, abbreviated to FP�)

Election results (1956-2006)
National Council of Austria

Election year
# of total votes
% of overall vote
# of seats

1956
283,749
6.5%
6

1959
336,110
7.7%
8

1962
313,895
7.0%
8

1966
242,570
5.4%
6

1970
253,425
5.5%
6

1971
248,473
5.5%
10

1975
249,444
5.4%
10

1979
286,743
6.1%
11

1983
241,789
5.0%
12

1986
472,205
9.7%
18

1990
782,648
16.6%
33

1994
1,042,332
22.5%
42

1995
1,060,175
22.0%
41

1999
1,244,087
26.9%
52

2002
491,328
10.0%
18

2006
519,598
11.0%
21

Alliance for the Future of Austria (B�ndnis Zukunft �sterreich or BZ�)

*BZO is an Austrian political party founded by J�rg Haider, his sister Ursula Haubner, and other leading members of the Freedom Party of Austria (FP�) on April 4, 2005. This resulted in the split of the Freedom Party, the future prospects of which seemed very uncertain for a time. Since the BZ� has fared very badly in the state elections it participated in, most commentators believe that it will disappear after the 2006 elections. Preliminary results from that election shows, however, that the party has secured eight seats in the Austrian parliament.

-Sweden:The National Socialist Front (Nationalsocialistisk front, abbreviated NSF)

The party ran for the municipal council elections in Karlskrona in 2002, but only attracted 0.5% of the votes which was not sufficient for a mandate.
In 2006 the party entered the elections at a national level. There they gathered 1417 votes, or 0.03% (in order to enter Riksdagen - the national parlament - a party needs at least 4% or roughly 220,000 votes). The party had the most success in Trollh�ttan, where they received 208 votes or 0.65%, although it wasn't enough to enter the "kommunfullm�ktige" (city council). Still, 2006 was their best election year in the party's history.
The National Democrats (Nationaldemokraterna)

It is supported by some 0.1% of the electorate but has managed to gain representation in two municipalities south of Stockholm in 2002.

-Great Britain:The British National Party (BNP)

*National parliament

The BNP has contested seats in England, Wales and Scotland, and has announced plans to contest future elections in Northern Ireland. No BNP candidate has ever won a seat as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons.
In the 2005 General Election, the British National Party stood 119 candidates across England, Scotland and Wales. Between those candidates the BNP polled 192,850 votes, gaining an average of 4.2% across the several seats they stood in, and 0.7% nationwide - a 0.5% rise from the 2001 election. In those seats which the BNP stood in they were the 4th largest party. However, they did not stand nationwide, meaning that their national share of the vote was substantially lower than other minor parties and exit poll predictions of 3%.

 General election performance of BNP

Year
Number of Candidates
Percentage of vote
Total votes
Change (percentage points)

2005
119
0.7
192,746
+0.5

2001
33
0.2
47,129
+0.1

1997
56
0.1
35,832
0.0

1992
13
0.1
7,631
+0.1

1987
2
0.0
553
0.0

1983
53
0.0
14,621
N/A

The BNP has used various front organisations to give the impression of wider support for its activities, and in an attempt to access potential supporters. By their very nature, front groups are usually denied as such by both the organizations behind them and the groups themselves, so any attempt to identify them is a matter of judgement. Nevertheless, there is evidence (usually in the form of common organizers) that the following operate as BNP fronts:

Solidarity � The Union for British Workers (denied to be a front by both the BNP and Solidarity's president, Patrick Harrington; see article for details) 
Civil Liberty (UK) (see article for details) 
The Christian Council of Britain, which was set up by BNP members and supporters to organise among Christians "in defence of traditional Christian values". Mainstream Christian groups have criticised the BNP for "using Christianity to further their agenda of segregation and division." 
Unlike the above groups, which purport to be independent, the following organisations are officially linked to or part of the BNP:

The Trafalgar Club is the BNP fund-raising club and the name it uses to book hotels and conference facilities. 
The BNP Ethnic Liaison Committee is an organisation of which people from the ethnic minorities can become members. The committee have joined with BNP members in staging demonstrations in the past. 
Great White Records, a record label described by the BNP as "a patriotic label" launched in January 2006. It launched a campaign to introduce folk music to schoolchildren. Most of the songs sung by Doncaster folkster Lee Haggan, have been written by Nicholas Griffin himself . 
Albion Life Insurance was set up in September 2006  as an insurance brokerage company on behalf of the BNP. Its stated aim is to 'secure a robust financial situation for the BNP'. The officers of Albion Life are all members of the British National Party. 

Organizations:The Young BNP 

Its leader, up until November 2002, was Mark Collett. He appeared in an episode of Russell Brand's 2001 TV documentary series RE:Brand discussing his role. Collett was sacked from his position after a Channel 4 television programme secretly filmed him declaring his admiration for Adolf Hitler and UDA paramilitary Johnny Adair.

-Hungary:The Hungarian Justice and Life Party (Magyar Igazs�g �s �let P�rtja, in short: MI�P) 

In 2005, MI�P joined forces with a newer, right-wing political party, namely the Movement for a Better Hungary. The new political formation has been registered under the name the MI�P-Jobbik Third Way Alliance of Parties and it purports to speak for Christians, stands up for the rights of Hungarian minorities in the neighbouring countries and boasts a "law and order" agenda, in order to crack down on crime.

 Parliamentary representation

year
seat percentage
seats
popular votes
status

1994
1.58%
0
85,431
extra-parliamentary

1998
5.47%
14
248,901
opposition

2002
4.37%
0
245,326
extra-parliamentary

2006
2.20%
0
119,007
extra-parliamentary

At the legislative elections in 1998 the party won 5.5% of the votes and gained parliamentary representation, with 14 seats.
At the last legislative elections, April 7 and 20, 2002, the party won 4.4% of the popular vote and no seats.
-Switzerland:Swiss Democrats (Schweizer Demokraten, D�mocrates Suisses, Democratici Svizzeri)

At the last legislative elections, 19 October 2003, the party won 1.0% of the popular vote and 1 out of 200 seats. Many of the party's members are former Swiss People's Party members that are disappointed about the light neoliberal swing in the SVP.

The Swiss People's Party (SVP) also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre (German: Schweizerische Volkspartei, French: Union D�mocratique du Centre, Italian: Unione Democratica di Centro, Romansh: Partida Populara Svizra)  The SVP is strongest in German-speaking areas of Switzerland and after the 2003 general election is the largest party in the Swiss lower house of parliament with 55 out of 200 seats. Its party chair is Ueli Maurer. It is a member of the governing coalition and has two members on the Swiss Federal Council, former President of the Confederation Samuel Schmid and Christoph Blocher.

At the expense of the major parties of the centre, the SVP has greatly increased its voter support in the last decades and presently holds roughly 25% of the national vote. In the 2003 elections, its ascendancy to the strongest party in Parliament led it to demand an additional seat on the Federal Council at the expense of the Christian Democrats (now the weakest of the parties in the governing coalition) and threatened to go into opposition if it didn't get it. Finally, Blocher was elected to the council, replacing Ruth Metzler-Arnold.
In 2003, it held 55 mandates (out of 200) in the Swiss National Council (first chamber of the Swiss parliament); 8 (out of 46) in the second chamber and 2 out of 7 mandates in the Swiss Federal Council (executive body). By 2005, it held 23.3% of the seats in the Swiss Cantonal parliaments and 15.8% in the Swiss Cantonal governments (index "BADAC", weighted with the population and number of seats). This gap has been explained because of many cantonal party sections being young and not counting on experienced personnel for governments, and furthermore because of the pronounced positions of the People's Party in many Swiss cantons. Polls also predict that the SVP will stay the largest party in the Swiss National Council in the next election.