New Conservatives Defunct Historical The Christian National Union (Polish: Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Narodowe, ZChN)[1] was a Christian-democratic[2] and nationalist[3] political party in Poland.
Established on 15 September 1989, the party traced its tradition to the Solidarity movement (both the trade union and the Solidarity Citizens' Committee), as well as pre-World War II National Democracy and Polish Christian Democratic Party.
[4] However, the coalition failed to win any seats in the 2001 parliamentary election, when it was reduced to 5.6% of the vote, due to several splits and the emergence of rival parties in the Solidarity tradition, namely the Civic Platform and the Law and Justice.
[1] In 2007, most ZChN politicians joined League of Polish Families, but several of its members had already joined Law and Justice, a Christian-conservative party formed in 2001 by Jarosław Kaczyński and Lech Kaczyński from the ashes of the Centre Agreement (that was later part of the Polish Christian Democratic Agreement).
The former has most of the support of ZChN's previous members, however the latter has adopted most of its policies and declares itself the modern day version of National Democracy.