Senate 2001
The Senate 2001 bloc was an electoral alliance in Poland used by centre-right parties in the election to the Senate in 2001. It included post-Solidarity Electoral Action parties, who aimed to prevent domination of the Senate by the centre-left Democratic Left Alliance – Labor Union. All of the component parties competed in the concurrent election to the Sejm separately.
The parties involved in the alliance were:
- Solidarity Electoral Action, a Christian democratic alliance led by Jerzy Buzek
- Law and Justice, a national conservative party led by Lech Kaczyński
- Civic Platform, a liberal conservative party led by Maciej Płażyński
- Movement for Reconstruction of Poland, a conservative party led by Jan Olszewski
- Freedom Union, a classical liberal party led by Władysław Frasyniuk
The size of the caucus entitled the party to one member, Edmund Wittbrodt, of the Convention on the Future of Europe. Two of its members, Wittbrodt and Andrzej Chronowski, served as MEPs for three months after accession in 2004, before 2004 European Parliament [election in Poland|elections] could be held.