The power of national government was to be significantly reduced and the regions were to act as self-sovereign entities that would cooperate with each other on the basis of equal partnerships and "solidarity-based" support.

[5] The founder of PR, Filipek, strongly emphasised that his party will be organised in a much more decentralised and democratic manner than Self-Defence, stressing that decisions would be made "at the bottom, in the districts of the provinces".

The trade union was created to pressure the Minister of Agriculture Marek Sawicki, believed to have been neglecting the interests of Polish farmers.

The party stated: "The decision to support Grzegorz Napieralski was decisively influenced by the fact that he is a representative of the Polish patriotic left, effectively working towards goals that are important for the entire left-wing formation, and a representative of the young generation, striving to make the vision of a fair and evenly developed Poland a reality".

[23] In May 2010, the party created its youth wing, Youth Section of the Party of Regions (Polish: Sekcja Młodych Partii Regionów), which declared that "as young people, we have a special right to demand equal opportunities and equal treatment of the development needs of the regions - our small homelands".

[24] In June 2010, the party mobilised its ranks and joined with associated agrarian trade unions in order to aid the victims of the 2010 Central European floods in Poland.

[4] Before the 2010 Polish local elections, activists of the Party of Regions decided to run jointly with the Democratic Left Alliance.

[25] On the basis of this agreement, Halina Molka, Alicja Lis, Józef Głowa, Anna Brózda and Tadeusz Urban were included on the Alliance's electoral lists as representatives of the Party of Regions.

Both parties published a joint declaration explaining the reason behind their alliance: "Poland has wandered too far to the right.

In September 2010, the Party of Regions initatied a coalition with the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and formed a joint electoral bloc in Mazovia.

Afterwards, the representatives of PR came to an agreement with Democratic Left Alliance to sign a joint programmdeclaration, which took place during the inauguration of the election campaign at the turn of September and October.

Bolesław Borysiuk declared that a total of 500 members of the Party of Regions ran on SLD electoral lists.

Describing the decision to cooperate so closely with the SLD, Borysiuk explained that the Party of Regions is the "patriotic left".

During the 2014 Polish local elections, the Party of Regions participated in the SLD-Left Together coalition; its activists were, among others, on the lists for provincial assemblies.

The statement also included heavy criticism of neoliberalism, and the declaration that "the left should criticise the historical policy of the right and respond with its own narrative concerning the past", especially "the attitude to the achievements of People's Poland".

[5] Other members of the new party included Andrzej Grzesik, Norbert Drozd, Józef Stępkowski, Bolesław Borysiuk, Lech Szymańczyk, Janusz Wójcik, Wiesław Marzec and regional activists from the Pomorskie, Mazowieckie, Świętokrzyskie and Kielce voivodeships.

[20] The party aimed to create "a new quality" and move away from "the style of governance that was in Self-Defence", announcing a democratic structure where decisions "at the bottom, in the districts, provinces, counties".

[30] The basic organisational unit of the Party of Regions was a "circle" (Polish: koło), operating in a specific area or community.

The leader of the party, Bolesław Borysiuk, is a former member of the Polish–Soviet Friendship Society and was reported to "manifest his belief in the ideals of socialism".

The future members of the Party of Regions belonged to a post-communist wing of Samoobrona, composed of former Ministry of Interior and Administration.

Self-Defence did consider itself socialist,[34] and was also described as such by political scientists such as Sarah de Lange, Gerrit Voerman and Rafał Pankowski.

[39] A 2003 survey by CBOS found that the majority of party's supporters wished Poland could have retained communist economy.

Krzysztof Filipek announced that the "theses, postulates and messages" of Andrzej Lepper are also to be followed by the Party of Regions.

The party was also highly critical of the right-wing Law and Justice, accusing it of further impoverishing poor regions while also neglecting rural interests.

[7] The party was anti-neoliberal, accusing the neo-liberal economic model and the associated Balcerowicz plan of leading to massive debt and the spectre of bankruptcy, stating: "The neo-liberal financial and customs policies pursued since 1990 have led state and cooperative enterprises into massive debt and the spectre of bankruptcy".

The party regarded the sense of pride in belonging and attachment to the historical values of "regional, small homelands" as an important component of civil society.

[9] The party called for a new economic policy based on the social market economy and the principle of sustainable development.

The party stated its intent to create a system that would prioritise human development, education and science over economic growth.

[9] The Party of Regions also opposed stratification of wages and other incomes, criticising the progressive differentiation of living standards between urban and rural areas, and violations of the Polish Labour Code.