Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej

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Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej (KPN, Confederation of Independent Poland) was a political party founded on 1 September 1979 by Leszek Moczulski and others declaring support for the pre-war traditions of Sanacja and Józef Piłsudski. It was the first independent political party that was publicly proclaimed in the Eastern Bloc, it was however unrecognized by the People's Republic of Poland government and its chief activists were arrested several times. It didn't participate in the Polish Roundtable Negotiations.

After the fall of communism, Leszek Moczulski was a candidate for the Polish president, but got only 2,5% of votes for Polish presidential election, 1990 and withdrew during the following one. During the Polish parliamentary election, 1991 the party got 7,5% of the vote, during the Polish parliamentary election, 1993, 5,7%. In the 1996 it suffered a split, with Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej - Ojczyzna faction under Adam Słomka leaving main KPN, and KPN joining the Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność, but left it in 1997, before Polish parliamentary election, 1997, in which it didn't particiapte. For the 2001 it allied itself with Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność Prawicy, but its candidates got 0,08% and the AWSP was which got 5,6% didn't elect a single representative (treshold was 8%). In 2004 Leszek Moczulski dissolved his KPN; while Słomka declared his KPN-O the main KPO and gathered some members of the now-disbanded Moczulski's KPN.