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A new opinion poll shows the party of far-right leader Grzegorz Braun, Confederation of the Polish Crown (KPP), reaching third place for the first time, with support of 11.2%.
The finding continues a dramatic recent rise for Braun, who is currently standing trial for a variety of alleged crimes, including in relation to an attack on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration in Poland’s parliament.
The new poll, by research agency OGB, places KPP behind the main centrist ruling Civic Platform (KO) of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, which is on 35.3%, and the national-conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS), which has 31.2%.
KPP is ahead of another far-right group, Confederation (Konfederacja), on 10.7%. They are followed by two left-wing groups, The Left (Lewica) and Together (Razem), on 5% and 3.3% respectively, then the centre-right Polish People’s Party (PSL) and centrist Poland 2050 (Polska 2050), each on 1.7%.
However, when looking at the average results of recent polls, KPP is fourth on around 7%, well below Confederation, which is on around 13%, but marginally above The Left.
Monthly averages of polling results for Poland’s leading parties (source: ewybory.eu)
At the start of 2025, when he announced a surprise presidential run, Braun’s polling numbers stood below 1%. However, after a campaign characterised by anti-Jewish, anti-Ukrainian and anti-LGBT rhetoric, Braun finished fourth in the presidential election, with 6.3% of the vote.
His KPP party, which blends Catholic ultraconservatism, economic libertarianism, monarchism and anti-EU sentiment, has now built on that success.
Braun, who is a member of the European Parliament, and KPP were until this year part of the broader Confederation, which was formed in 2018 by a collection of far-right movements in order to stand jointly in elections.
However, Braun and his party were ejected from the alliance in January this year after he announced his presidential candidacy despite Confederation having picked another of its leaders, Sławomir Mentzen, as its official candidate.
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Braun has a long history of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. Last month, he said that the Polish government is “implementing directives presented…by various Jewish organisations”. Earlier this year, he declared that the gas chambers at Auschwitz were “fake”.
In 2019, Braun claimed that “Jew-Masons” are using “sodomites” as part of their attempts to bring about “world revolution”. He called for homosexuality to be criminalised and “sodomites sent to prison”.
Last week, Braun went on trial in Warsaw accused of crimes relating to four incidents, most infamously an attack on a celebration of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah in parliament in December 2023. He claimed in court that he is being prosecuted because he “dared to defend myself against Jewish supremacy”.
The trial of Polish far-right leader Grzegorz Braun for his attacks on a Hanukkah celebration in parliament and a Holocaust lecture has begun.
He declared in court that he was facing trial because he had "dared to defend myself against Jewish supremacy" https://t.co/NRZLw7yzyo
— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) December 8, 2025
Braun and his party have also campaigned against what they call the “Ukrainisation” of Poland, suggesting that the large number of Ukrainian refugees and immigrants is a threat to Polish identity and sovereignty.
He has long been accused of having sympathies towards and links to Russia. In September, after Russian drones violated Polish airspace, Braun claimed that the incident was faked as part of a conspiracy, involving Poland’s own government, to drag the country into the war in Ukraine.
In November, Braun and fellow KPP politicians wrote to Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov calling for a “de-escalation and normalisation in Polish-Russian relations”.
Two far-right leaders claim the Russian drone incursions were faked by Poland’s own government as part of a conspiracy to drag the country into the war in Ukraine.
They have submitted a notification to prosecutors against foreign minister @sikorskiradek https://t.co/YixQCpQBd7
— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) September 19, 2025
Braun is separately subject to investigations by prosecutors for a number of other alleged crimes, many relating to various anti-Jewish, anti-LGBT and anti-Ukrainian rhetoric and actions carried out during his presidential campaign this year.
Last month, the European Parliament stripped Braun of immunity to face charges for six alleged crimes, including inciting religious hatred against Jews, assaulting a doctor involved in carrying out a late-term abortion, and vandalising an LGBT+ exhibition.
There are also two further requests to lift Braun’s immunity still pending. One, submitted in September, is for the crime of denying Nazi crimes in relation to Braun’s declaration that the Auschwitz gas chambers are fake.
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Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland. He has written on Polish affairs for a wide range of publications, including Foreign Policy, POLITICO Europe, EUobserver and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
