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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Real Politics Union
| logo             = File:UPR_logo_2.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert
| logo_size        = 225
| colorcode        = {{party color|Real Politics Union}}
| leader           = 
| founder          = [[Janusz Korwin-Mikke]]
| foundation       = 14 November 1987 (as a society) <br> 6 December 1990 (as a party)
| ideology         = {{ubl|class=nowrap|
 |'''Current:'''
 |[[Conservative liberalism]]
 |[[Federalism]]
 |[[National conservatism]]
 |[[National Liberalism]]
 |[[Economic liberalism]]
 |[[Right-wing populism]]
 |[[Soft Euroscepticism]]<ref name="EncycPol_Basista">{{Citation |first=Jakub |last=Basista |title=Poland |editor-first1=Rodney P. |editor-last1=Carlisle |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right |publisher=Sage |year=2005 |page=819}}</ref>
 |'''Historical:'''
 |[[Libertarian conservatism]]<ref>{{Cite book |first=Gábor |last=Tóka |title=Political Parties in East Central Europe |work=Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=1997 |page=127}}</ref>
 |[[Classical liberalism]]<ref name="HlousekKopecek">{{Citation |first1=Vít |last1=Hloušek |first2=Lubomír |last2=Kopeček |title=Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared |publisher=Ashgate |year=2010 |page=115}}</ref>
 |[[Right-libertarianism]]<ref name="HlousekKopecek"/>
 |[[Hard Euroscepticism]]<ref name="EncycPol_Basista"/>
}}
| headquarters     = ul. Złota 7/18, 00–019 [[Warsaw]]
| international    = 
| website          = {{URL|www.uniapolitykirealnej.org.pl/}}
| country          = Poland
| native_name      = Unia Polityki Realnej
| leader1_title    = President
| leader1_name     = [[Bartosz Józwiak]]
| national         = [[Civic Platform (Poland)|Civic Platform]] (2001)<br>[[National Movement (Poland)|National Movement]]<br>(2012–2015)<br>[[Kukiz'15]] (2015–2019)
| position         = [[Right-wing politics|Right-wing]]<ref name="EncycPol_Basista"/>
| colours          = Black, Azure, White
| flag             = [[File:UPR flag.svg|150px]]
| seats1_title     = [[Sejm of the Republic of Poland|Sejm]]
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|0|460|{{party color|Real Politics Union}}}}
| seats2_title     = [[Senate of the Republic of Poland|Senate]]
| seats2           = {{Composition bar|0|100|{{party color|Real Politics Union}}}}
| seats3_title     = [[European Parliament]]
| seats3           = {{Composition bar|0|51|{{party color|Real Politics Union}}}}
| seats4_title     = [[Voivodeship sejmik|Regional assemblies]]
| seats4           = {{Composition bar|0|552|{{party color|Real Politics Union}}}}
}}
The '''Real Politics Union''' ({{langx|pl|Unia Polityki Realnej}}, '''UPR''') is a [[national conservative]] and [[economically liberal]] political party in Poland. In the past it was [[right-libertarian]] and [[classical liberal]].

==Popular support and funding==
UPR was founded in 1987 as the [[classic liberal]] Real Politics Movement by [[Janusz Korwin-Mikke]], who later became its long-term leader.

In the 1990s and 2000s, UPR consistently had the support of 1–2% of voters in general elections, too low to receive public funding under Polish electoral law. As a consequence, it has faced prolonged financial difficulties since its inception. In the 1991 legislative election, the party won 3 seats.

In the [[2001 Polish parliamentary election|parliamentary election in 2001]], the UPR candidates started from lists of [[Civic Platform]] to Sejm. To the Senate both parties joined centre-right coalition [[Senate 2001]] with other post-Solidarity parties.

UPRs candidates commenced their political campaign from its short-lived satellite party ''Janusz Korwin-Mikke's Platform'' ("Platforma Janusza Korwin-Mikke"). The PJKM also did not manage to cross the required 5% threshold in the 2005 parliamentary elections (it got only 1.57%).

In the [[2007 Polish parliamentary election|parliamentary election in 2007]], the UPR candidates campaigned in cooperation with the [[League of Polish Families]] but did not enter into a formal coalition. The list on which both the UPR and the League appeared saw the UPR get 1.5% votes. This was insufficient to get any of their candidates into the lower house ("Sejm") and therefore the UPR remains unable to obtain public funding.

In October 2009, [[Janusz Korwin-Mikke]] left the party and its another former chairman, [[Stanisław Michalkiewicz]], resigned from his honorary membership. In the following years, party became more [[nationalist]].

In the 2011 elections, [[Stanisław Żółtek]] (along with [[Janusz Korwin-Mikke|pro Korwin-Mikke]] faction) took part in the foundation of [[Congress of the New Right]], which was led by the former chairman of the UPR [[Janusz Korwin-Mikke]].

In the 2012, UPR (along with the [[All-Polish Youth]] and [[National Radical Camp (1993)|National Radical Camp]]) formed [[Far-right politics|far-right]] political alliance [[National Movement (Poland)|National Movement]], which merged into the political party in the 2014.

UPR cooperated with [[National Movement (Poland)|National Movement]] in the [[2014 European Parliament election in Poland|European Parliament election in 2014]], [[2014 Polish local elections|Polish local elections in 2014]] and the [[2015 Polish presidential election|presidential election in 2015]]. In the [[2015 Polish parliamentary election|Polish parliamentary election in 2015]], the whole [[National Movement (Poland)|National Movement]] stand for the Sejm from the lists of [[Kukiz'15]].

At the end of 2015, UPR leader Bartosz Józwiak left [[National Movement (Poland)|National Movement]] which ended the partnership between these parties.

In the 2019 election, UPR left [[Kukiz'15]], because it did not want to join the [[Polish Coalition|coalition]] with [[Polish People's Party]]. It created its own parliamentary group which consisted of four members that existed till the end of the 8th [[Sejm]]. Some of UPR associated members were candidates of [[Law and Justice]] party in [[2019 Polish parliamentary election|2019 election]].

On 21 February 2020, UPR joined [[European Christian Political Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.upr.org.pl/index.php/2020/02/21/upr-wchodzi-do-polityki-europejskiej/|title= UPR wchodzi do polityki europejskiej|date= February 21, 2020|access-date= July 22, 2020}}</ref> In March, UPR declared willingness to cooperate with [[Agreement (political party)|Agreement]] party. In the second round of [[2020 Polish presidential election|2020 presidential election]], UPR supported [[Andrzej Duda]],;the party did not support any of the candidates before the first round.

==Leadership==
* [[Janusz Korwin-Mikke]] (1990–1997)
* [[Stanisław Michalkiewicz]] (1997–1999)
* [[Janusz Korwin-Mikke]] (1999–2002)
* [[Stanisław Wojtera]] (2002–2005)
* [[Jacek Boroń]] (2005)
* [[Wojciech Popiela]] (2005–2008)
* [[Bolesław Witczak]] (2008–2011)
* [[Bartosz Józwiak]] (2011–)

==See also==
* [[Conservative-Monarchist Club]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.uniapolitykirealnej.org.pl/ Official website] (in Polish)

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