[1] Polish Reason of State presented itself as a trustworthy and accountable alternative to Samoobrona, and required its members to have political experience.
[1] About a month after their expulsion, the 4 MPs gathered in Opole on 6 September 2003, where they announced the formation of a new party - Polish Reason of State.
[7] Founding members argued that their expulsion was unjustified and was caused by their criticism of Samoobrona, which they accused of failing to realise its political program and going against its own ideology.
[1] The party's identity was shaped by Stanisław Dulias, who was very close to the left-wing circles; the PRS declaration drew attention to the postulate of economic involvement of the state, reintroduction of socialist economy, and opposition to Poland's participation in NATO and 'western' wars.
The party published an open letter to Andrzej Lepper which formulated a number of accusations against the leadership of Samoobrona, including those concerning ambiguities around the management of organisational funds.
In response, Lepper firmly declared that past merits for Samoobrona could not constitute a title to hold power in the party, noting the importance of new members and supporters of the group; he also stressed that those who left the ranks of the parliamentary club would not have the opportunity to run on the party's electoral lists in the future.
[2] In January 2004, the party entered talks with politicians Roman Jagieliński and Tomasz Mamiński to form the left-wing Federated Parliamentary Club.
Witaszek then entered the parliamentary club of social-democratic Household Party (Polish: Stronnictwo Gospodarcze), but did not seek to contest the 2004 European Parliament election in Poland.
Witaszek envisioned merging two parties together and stated that the new formation would be based on left-wing agrarianism and opposition to the European Union.
Its main goal was to "win the public's trust"; other parties were denounced as self-serving instead of serving the people, a situation that the PSR called "pathological".
[10] Pledging to repair the 'injustice' done in 1989, Polish Reason of State described itself as a socialist party, much in line with original Samoobrona and its ideology.