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Poland Beer-Lovers' Party
Registered as a political party in December 1990, the
Polish
Beer-Lovers' Party (Polska Partia Przyjaciól Piwa--PPPP)
may have
started as a prank. But with time, its members developed a
serious platform, for which the humorous stated goals of
the
party--lively political discussion in pubs serving
excellent
beer--were a symbol of freedom of association and
expression,
intellectual tolerance, and a higher standard of living.
Its
humorous name probably helped the party win votes from a
politically disenchanted populace in the 1991
parliamentary
elections, in which the PPPP captured sixteen Sejm seats.
In
early 1992, following a split within the PPPP into the Big
Beer
and Little Beer parties, the former assumed the name
Polish
Economic Program. Losing its image of quirkiness, the
Polish
Economic Program became associated with the UD and KLD in
the
Little Coalition of liberal promarket parties and
supported the
candidacy of Hanna Suchocka as prime minister.
Data as of October 1992
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