Popular National Union

Popular National Union Związek Ludowo-Narodowy
Founded	May 1919; 105 years ago (1919-05)
Dissolved	7 October 1928; 95 years ago (1928-10-07)
Preceded by	National-Democratic Party
Succeeded by	National Party
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland
Ideology	Republicanism Polish nationalism National Democracy National conservatism
Political position	Right-wing
National affiliation	Camp of Great Poland (from 1926)
Politics of Poland Political parties Elections

Związek Ludowo-Narodowy (ZLN; English: Popular National Union)^[1] was a Polish political party aligned with the National Democracy political movement during the Second Polish Republic, gathering together right-wing politicians with conservative and nationalist opinions.

Between 1919 and 1926, the Popular National Union achieved considerable electoral success but at no point governed alone. It could only supply individual ministers (e.g. in finance, education or foreign affairs) to successive governments after 1923 in cooperation with the National Democrats and the peasants' party (Chjeno-Piast). In the 1922 presidential elections, the Popular National Union nominated Count Maurycy Zamoyski to counter the centrist Gabriel Narutowicz and the socialist Stanisław Wojciechowski of the Polish People's Party “Piast”.

After the May 1926 Coup, the Popular National Union gradually lost its influence and power in the wake of internal schisms and conflicts under the rule of its rivals, the Sanation regime. In 1928 the Popular National Union morphed into the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe).