Formed in 1994 from the political wing of the Association of Poles in Lithuania, LLRA experienced a surge in support in the 2000s, under the leadership of Waldemar Tomaszewski.
The Polish community which did not have its own party faced the difficult task of keeping the Association and simultaneously enabling its participation in the political life of Lithuania at the same time.
During the Conference the decision was adopted to transform the APL into a social organisation and support the efforts of the group initiating the establishment of a party set up under the name of the Electoral Action of the LLA.
Finally, on 23 October after pressure from the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice to remove the word 'Union' from the name of the party, it was registered as the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA).
The LLRA-KŠS also postulates abolition of tuition fees for bachelor's studies and a program that would provide free basic medicine to the elderly.
[13] The LLRA-KŠS also proposes policies implemented in Poland, such as the Polish "Family 500+" welfare program that grants parents a monthly income of 500 PLN per child.
[14] LLRA's leader Valdemar Tomaszewski is considered to be a pro-Russian, since he had condemned the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine and had been seen wearing the Ribbon of Saint George, a symbol strongly associated with Russian nationalism and support for Vladimir Putin.
[16] While another member of the LLRA party, Zbignev Jedinskij, in his Facebook profile called on NATO to begin bombing Kyiv to force peace in 2014.
[16] The usage of Ribbon of Saint George by Tomaszewski was criticized by Bogdan Borusewicz, the Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, describing him as "crossing the line".
[20][21] In September 2020, Tomaszewski and the LLRA fraction in Seimas did not participate in a voting on adopting a resolution regarding the illegal and imposed union of Russia with Belarus and stated that it creates tension between neighbors.
[22] Moreover, Tomaszewski criticized Lithuanian government for its support to the Belarusian opposition, banning of Russian media channels, and compared the annexation of Crimea as an analogy with the Kosovo question.
[33] On 12 June 2023, the Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Lithuania stated that the LLRA-KŠS indirectly bribed voters by giving gifts to children in the Vilnius District last year and that persons belonging to the electoral list of candidates for the Vilnius District Council and the then mayoral candidate Waldemar Urban conducted campaigning that did not comply with the principles of fair and honorable elections.
[40] In May 2023, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Prime Minister of Poland, awarded Stanisław Pieszko (member of the central board of the LLRA, who in the past refrained during a parliamentary voting for adopting the Act of March 11 in 1990) and Waldemar Tomaszewski with the badges of honor for services to the Polish diaspora.