New Wave (Polish political party)

Professor Senyszyn's New Wave
Polish: Nowa Fala Profesor Senyszyn
AbbreviationNowa Fala[1]
NF[2]
FoundersJoanna Senyszyn[3]
Robert Kwiatkowski[3]
Marek Balt[3]
Founded28 August 2025[1]
Registered9 December 2025[1]
Headquarters01-230 Warsaw
Skierniewicka 14, 69A[1]
IdeologyAnti-clericalism[4]
Pro-Europeanism[5]
Political positionCenter-left[6]
Colours  Pink
Website
nowafala.org

Professor Senyszyn's New Wave (Polish: Nowa Fala Profesor Senyszyn, NF)[2] is a center-left political party in Poland.

History

Senyszyn and Nonpartisans

Joanna Senyszyn was a candidate in the 2025 Polish presidential election. Senyszyn was a longtime activist and poseł of the Democratic Left Alliance, although she quit it in 2021 and cofounded the Democratic Left Association. She was supported in her campaign by the Democratic Left Association and Nonpartisans, a minor anti-establishment party chaired by Piotr Bakun with various ties to Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy (which it split from[7]) and the far-right Confederation.[8] Senyszyn claims to have been compelled to run by the Nonpartians,[9] although another candidate affiliated with the Nonpartisans, Wojciech Papis, the party's secretary,[10] also tried to run, but failed to gather the necessary 100,000 support signatures.[11] Bakun became Senyszyn's campaign plenipotentiary.[12] Senyszyn was also accused of having her 100,000 support signatures forged.[8]

Preliminary organization

In the presidential election, Senyszyn obtained 1.09% of the vote, coming 9th out of 13 candidates. During the election, she was described as anti-clerical,[13] and left-wing.[14] After the first round of the election, Senyszyn at first declared that she could "only support a true revolutionary" in the second round, but she eventually endorsed Rafał Trzaskowski of Civic Platform.[15] On 22 May, Senyszyn announced that she would organize a new political party.[16]

Initially, the party had the placeholder name "Senyszyn's Empire"[17] and later "Red Corals",[18] both references to elements of Senyszyn's presidential campaign.[19] In June, New Left leader Robert Biedroń acknowledged the not yet registered party, imploring it to join the New Left on a single electoral list.[20] Senyszyn also announced a youth wing of the party.[21] According to Senyszyn, the party received around 10,000 signups after its announcement.[22]

Ultimately, the party adopted the name "New Wave", implying a "new wave to sweep away the old political world", after a vote on Facebook, with the name winning against "Democracy", "Party of Stars", "Tomorrow's Generation"[23][24] It was joined by former Democratic Left Alliance politicians Robert Kwiatkowski and Marek Balt as well as Piotr Bakun.[12]

Establishment

New Wave applied for registration on 28 August 2025.[25] On 19 October, Senyszyn declared that the party would be registered in 1.5 months at latest.[26] On 28 November, Senyszyn stated that she is still waiting for the party to be registered.[27] The party was ultimately registered on 9 December.[1][28] Apart from Senyszyn, the founders of the party were Robert Kwiatkowski, the former director of Telewizja Polska, and Marek Balt, a left-wing Member of European Parliament.[3]

In September, Dariusz Cychol, a pro-Russian journalist, was revealed as a Senyszyn's business partner and assistant in founding the party. Senyszyn responded by stating that she "does not follow the lives of her partners",[29] claimed the information is false, and stated her condemnation of Russia.[30] In an October 2025 poll, the party polled 1.6%, overperforming the long-standing Polish People's Party, which polled 1.3% instead.[31]

In November 2025, the leader of the New Left Włodzimierz Czarzasty, who was elected the Marshal of the Sejm, declared his intention to create a joint electoral list of left-leaning parties for the Next Polish parliamentary election, composed of New Left, Razem and New Wave.[32] Senyszyn rebuked this proposal, describing Czarzasty as "slimy" and arguing that he had "privatised his party and turned it into his own private fiefdom."[33] She stated her opposition to Czarzasty becoming the Marshal of the Sejm, calling him incompetent and accusing him, along with President Nawrocki, of abusing their power. She criticized the presence of New Left in the coalition, describing it as submissive towards the Civic Coalition. She stated that "the fight against poverty and inequality, women's and minority rights, and preventing PiS from returning to power" would be the main objectives of New Wave.[27]

Leadership

Senyszyn announced that the party would be managed democratically, with her name as part of the party's name serving to increase recognition,[22] and claiming that she would not be the party's leader but its "mother".[34] As a way to implement democracy in the party, she declared that out of the 920 places on the party's electoral lists for the Sejm and 100 places for the Senate, she will handpick 20 candidates while leaving the remaining 1000 seats to be democratically nominated by the party members.[35]

Ideology

Senyszyn distanced the party from the left–right political spectrum, stating that the party would be "democratic, modern and rational",[12] anti-clerical,[4] and pro-European.[36][26] The party has been described as center-left,[37] left-wing,[38][39] and its policy proposals have also been described as left-wing.[40] Commenting on the party's political orientation, Senyszyn stated: "Today, the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ are no longer used because they have lost their original meaning. For example, PiS is a somewhat left-wing party, but in terms of social issues and human rights, it is strongly conservative, if not reactionary. Therefore, I will simply say that the party will be democratic, modern and rational, just like me."[22] Senyszyn was also described as a feminist.[41][42]

The party postulates the elimination of financial privileges for Churches, secularization,[24] sex education in schools,[36] fight against inequality, preventing the return of Law and Justice to power,[27] support for women's right to self-determination and LGBT rights, a 'reasonable compromise between the interests of employers and employees',[24] and economic deregulation.[43] Senyszyn stressed that the party will seek "effective deregulation of the economy",[44] and simplifying the tax system to benefit small business.[45] She declared herself "in favour of greater [economic] liberalism", argued that the Polish economy is "overregulated", and praised the deregulatory proposals of Rafał Brzoska.[46] Senyszyn also postulates a nationwide night-time alcohol ban.[38] She opposes spending 5% of Polish GDP on the military, arguing that 3 to 3.5% would be sufficient.[47]

After its registration, Senyszyn stated that anti-clericalism is the crucial part of the party's ideology.[48] She stated: "I argue that most of the problems we have in Poland stem from it being a clerical, religious state, in which the clergy not only influences law-making, but also draws huge sums of money from the state budget. There will be no right to self-determination for women or LGBT rights as long as we have a clerical state. There will not even be rights for animals, because the Church does not take an honest position on this issue either. The Church also constitutes unfair competition for businesses. All it has to do is declare that its profits will be used for religious purposes and it no longer pays tax. It also does not pay other taxes, such as property tax. That is why it must end."[49]

The party seeks to present itself as a party for the youth,[50] pursuing the electorate of The Left.[25] In contrast, Polityka characterized the party as "supported by at most a few SLD veterans at odds with Czarzasty."[51] Senyszyn announced several goals for the party, among which entry into the Sejm, necessarily crossing the 5% electoral threshold,[22] introducting 50 posełs to the Sejm, 11% of the total amount,[25] and stopping the Law and Justice (PiS) party from returning to power since its loss in 2023.[12] Senyszyn also denounced the PiS-supported president, Karol Nawrocki, as "unworthy" of the office.[36] She also ruled out joining the electoral list of the Civic Coalition.[52] Senyszyn argues that "the Civic Platform and its allies will no longer be able to protect us from the return of PiS to power".[53] She also opposed the nomination of Włodzimierz Czarzasty of New Left for Marshal of the Sejm, accusing the New Left of "stepping into PiS shoes" through using undemocratic means and of being submissive towards its right-leaning coalition partners.[27]

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