Civic Platform
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Key facts
- Abbreviation
- PO
- Chairman
- Maciej Płażyński (first), Donald Tusk (last)
- Founders
- Donald Tusk Andrzej Olechowski Maciej Płażyński
- Founded
- 24 January 2001 ; , 25 years ago ( 2001-01-24 )
- Dissolved
- 25 October 2025 ; , 7 months ago ( 2025-10-25 )
- Split from
- Solidarity Electoral Action Freedom Union Conservative People's Party
- Merged into
- Civic Coalition (party)
- Headquarters
- ul. Wiejska 12A, 00-490 Warsaw
- Membership 2025
- ~25,000
- Ideology
- Liberal conservatism Christian democracy Pro-Europeanism
- Political position
- Centre-right
- National affiliation
- Civic Coalition , Senate 2001 ( 2001 ), POPiS ( 2002 ), Senate Pact 2023 ( 2023 )
- European affiliation
- European People's Party
- European parliament group
- European People's Party Group
- Colours
- Orange Blue
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
The Civic Platform (Polish: Platforma Obywatelska, PO) was a centre-right liberal conservative political party in Poland. The party's most prominent leader was Donald Tusk, party chairman between 2003–2014 and 2021–2025.
It was formed in 2001 by splinter factions from the Solidarity Electoral Action, the Freedom Union and the Conservative People's Party, and it later placed second in the 2001 Polish parliamentary election. It remained at the opposition until the 2007 Polish parliamentary opposition, when it overtook Law and Justice, won 209 seats, and Tusk was elected as Prime Minister of Poland. Following the Smolensk air disaster in 2010, Bronisław Komorowski served as acting president of Poland and later won the 2010 Polish presidential election. Tusk continued to serve as prime minister and leader of Civic Platform until he resigned in 2014 to assume the post of the president of the European Council. The party was defeated in the 2015 Polish parliamentary and presidential elections. It placed second in the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, and its 2020 Polish presidential election candidate, Rafał Trzaskowski, won 49% of the popular vote in the second round and lost the election to Andrzej Duda.