Confederation of the Polish Crown

The Confederation of the Polish Crown (Polish: Konfederacja Korony Polskiej, KKP), often shortened to The Crown (Korona), is a far-right political party in Poland. The party was founded by Grzegorz Braun as a personal political vehicle. As such, the party and its views largely stem from Braun's own personal positions.

Confederation of the Polish Crown Konfederacja Korony Polskiej
Abbreviation	KKP
Chairman	Grzegorz Braun
Vice-chairman	Roman Fritz Włodzimierz Skalik
General Secretary	Jan Krysiak
Founded	7 September 2019
Headquarters	Częstochowa
Ideology	Ultranationalism Traditionalist Catholicism Ultraconservatism Hard Euroscepticism Enthronement
Political position	Far-right
Religion	Roman Catholicism
National affiliation	Confederation Liberty and Independence (2019–2025)
European Parliament group	Non-Inscrits
Colors	Gold   Red
Slogan	Ad maiorem Dei gloriam ('For the greater glory of God')
Sejm	3 / 460
Senate	0 / 100
European Parliament	1 / 53
Regional assemblies	0 / 552
Website
konfederacjakoronypolskiej.pl
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It has been described as ultranationalist and traditionalist, and the party advocates for Jesus Christ to be "enthroned" as the "King" of Poland. The party's goals are to "fight for the good of Poland, secure the sovereignty of the Polish State, defend Poland's Catholic faith, ensure that Polish families are prosperous, and help shape social life based on the principles of Latin civilization".

History

Formation (2019–2022)

The origin of Korona can be traced to an organization Braun founded in 2015 called Pobudka (lit. 'wake up call'). A network of Braun's supporters across 41 constituencies, Braun would formally transform his base into KKP in time for the 2019 Sejm election where he would win Constituency no. 23 in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. The party's founding congress would be held on 7 September 2019, where Braun had one of his supporters, Włodzimierz Skalik, installed as the party's vice president (with Braun being president) and general secretary. The party would be officially registered by Polish courts on 24 January 2020.

At its formation, the party had been in a coalition with KORWiN, later known as New Hope, and the National Movement called Confederation.

Braun was the Korona candidate in the 2020 Confederation presidential primary. He lost to Krzysztof Bosak during the final round of voting and then immediately endorsed his candidacy.

Braun has been described as a far-right politician, anti-vaccination activist, and antisemite.

Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–2025)

Braun is often accused of pro-Russian rhetoric. In June 2022, Braun and few other members of the party co-signed a pro-Russian declaration stating that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a consequence of NATO enlargement, as well as Ukrainian language laws that "discriminated against the Russian minority". The party called for an end to the war through the conclusion of a "compromise between Russia and Ukraine". Then in September 2022, Braun participated in an anti-Ukrainian protest, in which he made the following statement: "Stop the Ukrainianisation of Poland. Stop the de-Polonisation of Poland. It is about making Poland Polish." This statement was later aired by the state-owned Russian television channel Russia-1. In response to backlash, the party doubled down on Braun's statement; Jacek Ćwięka, the personal assistant of Grzegorz Braun, stated: "And this is the success of our action, which the leftists and liberals can only envy us! There is nothing else left for them."

Expulsion from Confederation (2025–present)

Braun would again seek the Confederation nomination in the 2025 presidential election, however, instead of a US-styled primary which the coalition had run in 2019 to determine its candidate, the Council of Leaders (which Braun is a member of) chose to nominate Sławomir Mentzen from New Hope even though Braun had support from Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Despite this Braun would push ahead with his own candidacy stating "I will be a candidate in this election, with God and human help." Due to his rejection of a ruling from the leadership council the internal coalition court would vote in favor of expelling Braun and Korona from Confederation entirely on 17 January 2025. Braun, who did not attend the ruling, refused to appeal.

During the campaign, Braun and KKP were consistently given 2-4% in polls, but would outperform these polls on election day, earning 6.34% of the electorate or 1,242,917 votes. This, combined with Mentzen and Confederation also outperforming polls, surprised many because if all Confederation and KKP voters voted for the Law and Justice candidate Karol Nawrocki, he would have won the first round with 50.69% of the vote. This is almost exactly what happened on election day, as Nawrocki won 50.89% of the vote in what was described as an upset, with 92.6% of Braun and 87.2% of Mentzen voters that turned out in the second round voting for him.

On 4 June 2025, the Confederation of the Polish Crown announced the creation of its own parliamentary circle in the Sejm, composed of Roman Fritz, Włodzimierz Skalik and Sławomir Zawiślak. Fritz and Skalik, elected on the list of Confederation Liberty and Independence in the 2023 election, left their party in March 2025 and joined Braun's party as independent MPs. However, since Braun is a MEP and not an MP of the Polish Sejm, his party fell short of three MPs - a minimum amount of MPs needed to form a parliamentary circle. In June 2025, Zawiślak, an MP of Law and Justice, left his party and defected to Braun, granting the Confederation of the Polish Crown its third MP and thus allowing it to found its own parliamentary circle.

For the 2027 Senate election, KKP allied itself with the localist Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy led by Marek Woch.

Views

Monarchism

Despite the party's name, Korona does not seek the restoration of the Kingdom of Poland or any royal dynasty and is therefore not a monarchist political party. Instead the party seeks to "enthrone Christ as King of Poland" as part of the so-called "enthronement movement" which was established by Polish Americans in Chicago which financed "Radio of Christ the King" as the movement's main organ which Braun appears on and the party regularly collaborates with. The network has been heavily criticized for allowing known pedophiles on the air including Piotr Glas. In 2012 the Polish Episcopal Conference rebuffed the movement, saying "thinking that it is enough to call Christ the King of Poland, and everything will change for the better, must be considered illusory, even harmful to the understanding and realization of Christ's salvation in the world." The party had been trying to get Archbishop Andrzej Dzięga to break ranks from the conference and perform an enthronement ceremony himself but he resigned from his position after an internal church investigation into mismanagement in 2024. However, by 2013 the conference formed a committee to look into "intronization" and worked with lay groups both in Poland and among Polish Americans to draft a "Jubilee Act of Acceptance of Jesus Christ as King and Lord".

Catholicism

Catholicism has been a key part of the party and Braun's own personal ideology, despite being denounced by the Catholic Church in Poland. Braun states that he emphasizes the Catholic aspect of his ideology because there are too many "pagans" that submit to "tribal chauvinism" among the other nationalist and libertarian circles. Braun also stated that personal freedom, liberty, and the concept of nations as a whole would've been impossible without the Catholic Church and Latin civilization.

Freemasonry

In the party's charter, Freemasons are forbidden from joining.

Economy

The main economic postulate of the party is economic sovereignty; it advocates financial sovereignty and 'the inalienable right to issue its own currency'. It declares to be "against usurious and fiscal exploitation, against statism and bureaucratic Talmudism; both against the recurrence of socialism and against the threats of anti-national liberalism, which takes the form of economic and ideological colonialism." It argues for a focus on Polish agriculture, stating: "Polish agriculture is like a hen laying golden eggs. It would be very foolish not to take care of them." It proposes to make Poland's food security as one of the strategic directions of state management, terminating 'absurd climate policy', protectionism through limiting food imports, withdrawing from unfavourable EU agreements, and promoting farmers directly selling their produce.

Foreign policy

The party is considered pro-Russian, anti-Ukraine, anti-EU and anti-NATO. The party is also anti-USA, condemning the USA as an imperialist empire that "is a political as well as military tool of Jewish blackmail against Poland". It called Poland ‘a Russian-German condominium under Jewish fiduciary government’. It argues that Poland should leave NATO and form an alliance with Belarus, Iran, Turkey and China instead, denouncing NATO as "international Zionist cadres" which are "linked to American imperialism". Braun accused Germany of instigating an anti-Polish campaign of shifting the blame for the Holocaust to Poland, arguing that German goal is to establish a "Jewish archipelago-sovereignty" in Poland and turn it into "Judeo-Polonia" supervised by the US army.

In the Russo-Ukrainian War, the party took an anti-Ukrainian stance, denouncing Ukraine as a "failed state" ruled by the "Banderite regime" and demanding a construction of a 3-meter fence on the Polish-Ukrainian border. It demanded that no Ukrainian refugees be allowed to enter Poland and claimed that Ukrainian refugees are part of a plot to replace Poles with Ukrainians. The KKP voted against resolutions "condemning the Russian genocide in Ukraine" and “condemning the illegal referenda held by the Russian authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine”, opposed expansion of NATO through entrance of Sweden and Finland, and denounced the bill to label Russia as a "terrorism-sponsoring state". The party also worked with the Alternative for Germany and Flemish Interest to organize protests against EU sanctions on Russia, and organized a nationwide "Stop the Ukrainization of Poland" campaign together with other parties in Poland.

It has also been described as antisemitic and anti-Israel. It accuses other political parties in Poland of serving the interests of Jews and Israel. Since the Gaza War, KKP has accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian people, and has called for the expulsion of Israeli ambassador from Poland. Braun interrupted the minute of silence for the Holocaust victims in the European Parliament by repeatedly requesting to pray for the victims of 'Jewish-conducted genocide in Gaza' instead. Braun was criticized by other MEPs - Łukasz Kohut called him a "disgusting creature" and Bert-Jan Ruissen called for the "highest possible sanction" against Braun, while the European Jewish Congress described his behaviour as "vile display of antisemitism in the heart of European democracy." Braun responded to the criticism by stating that "apparently all victims are equal, but some are more equal than others". The KKP does not recognize the existence of Israel, considering it to be an illegal occupier of Palestine and calling for a deportation of Israeli Jews from the region.

Minorities

A report by the "Never Again" Association, known as the "Brown Book", alleges that Jews, Muslims, Ukrainian refugees, and LGBT people have been attacked by the representatives of the Confederation of the Polish Crown.

Election results

Presidential

Election year	Candidate	1st round		2nd round
		No. of overall votes	% of overall vote	No. of overall votes	% of overall vote
2020	Supported Krzysztof Bosak	1,317,380	6.78 (#4)
2025	Grzegorz Braun	1,238,462	6.35 (#4)	Supported Karol Nawrocki (50.89%)

Sejm

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Government
2019	Grzegorz Braun	31,148	0.17% (#16)	1 / 460	New	PiS
	As part of the Confederation coalition, that won 11 seats in total.
2023	Grzegorz Braun	182,573	0.85% (#14)	3 / 460	2	PiS minority (2023)
						KO–PL2050–KP–NL (2023-present)
	As part of the Confederation coalition, that won 18 seats in total.

Senate

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Government
2019	144,124	0.79% (#6)	0 / 100	–	KO–KP–SLD
	As part of the Confederation coalition, that didn't win any seat.
2023	1,443,836	6.75% (#6)	0 / 100		KO–PL2050–KP–NL–LR
	As part of the Confederation coalition, that didn't win any seat.

European Parliament

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	EP Group
2019	Grzegorz Braun	621,188	4.55% (#4)	0 / 52	New	–
	As part of the Confederation coalition, that didn't win any seat.
2024	Grzegorz Braun	1,420,287	12.08% (#3)	1 / 53	1	NI
	As part of the Confederation coalition, that won 6 seats in total.

Regional assemblies

Election year	Votes	%	Seats	Change
2024	1,042,328	7.23% (#4)	0 / 552
	As part of coalition with Confederation, Agreement and Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy which won 6 seats in total.

Internal

Year	Election type	Affiliation		Final Candidate	Number of initial candidates	Number of rounds	Final round
							Electoral vote	Percentage
2019–20	American-style presidential primary		KKP	Braun	9	1x 16 regional preliminaries 7x convention elimination	146	46.5%