Libertas Poland (Libertas Polska, LP) was a political party in Poland. It contended the 2009 European Parliament elections under a common banner with Libertas Party Limited, the organization founded by Declan Ganley.

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Before the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, three LPR then-members, Cyprian Gutkowski, Daniel Pawłowiec and Sebastian Jargut, registered a party called Lewica i Demokraci, (Left and Democrats).^[5] The party was a party-in-name-only designed to frustrate^[5] the party of the same name, which was forced to register itself as SLD+SdPl+PD+UP – Lewica i Demokraci (LiD) instead.^[5]

Declan Ganley visited^[8][9] Poland on Friday 9 January 2009^[10] to discuss terms for the formation of the Poland branch of Libertas with representatives from Forward Poland (NP), PSL Piast and Prawica Rzeczypospolitej (PR).^[10] Ganley insisted that the Poland Libertas party used the word "Libertas" in the title but the party politicians were concerned that the non-Polish name would deter voters.^[10] The name "Forward Poland – Libertas" (Naprzód Polsko – Libertas) was suggested as a compromise name^[10] should NP decide to ally with Libertas.

On 1 February 2009,^[11] Ganley spoke to the inaugural Warsaw meeting of the Referendum Committee (Komitetu Referendalnego), an organization advocating that referendums be held prior to treaty ratifications by Poland.^[11][12] The speech was filmed and placed on YouTube (prolog, part 1, part 2). The meeting attendance was estimated at 700^[12] or 500^[11] and attendees included^[11][13] Mirosław Orzechowski (LPR), Zdzisław Podkański (PSL), Krzysztof Filipek and Danuta Hojarska (once Samoobrona, now Party of Regions) and Antoni Tyszka (UPR), Konrad Bonisławski (head of All-Polish Youth) and Krzysztof Bosak (former LPR MP).

On 2 February 2009^[6][11] a press conference was given^[7] in which the head of the Referendum Committee, former LPR MP Daniel Pawłowiec, was named as head^[1][2][7] of Libertas Poland (Libertas Polska, LP), and the Referendum Committee offices at Aleje Ujazdowskie 22/3, 00-478 Warsaw were named as the headquarters of Libertas Poland.^[7]

Although the party had been announced, it did not exist under that name at that point: registering a political party in Poland is a lengthy process.^[5] Instead, Pawlowiec's Lewica i Demokraci was renamed to Libertas Polska, the new name being registered on 24 February 2009^[5]

On 11 February 2009, Libertas Poland held a press conference concerning the emergency meeting of the European Council.^[14] In that press conference, Libertas Poland demanded that the Polish government should reduce VAT following the UK example,^[14] propose an EU joint energy policy,^[14] and reopen the labor markets of Germany and Austria to Polish workers.^[14]

Libertas attempted to get other parties to affiliate (run candidates under a common list) to it. Libertas's search for affiliates was assisted by Roman Giertych^[15] and Wojciech Wierzejski,^[16] with Wierzejski resigning from the leadership of LPR to devote his time to the unification of the Polish patriotic, nationalist, conservative and Christian right under a Libertas list.^[17]

On 20 March 2009, journalist Hanna Lis refused to do a TVP interview with Declan Ganley.^[40] Controversy promptly arose revolving around LPR's Roman Giertych^[40] and whether LPR were encouraging coverage of Libertas on TVP^[40] via Piotr Farfał the President of TVP^[41] and a member of LPR.^[40] Hanna Lis,^[42] Piotr Kraśko,^[42] and Jarosław Kulczycki,^[42] the three presenters of a nightly news program, took sick leave in protest, forcing the news to be presented by Marcin Szczepański.^[42]

Libertas Poland started work on/before 20 March 2009 on collecting sufficient signatures to field candidates,^[3][4] although the number and names of those candidates was not specified.^[3][4] By 2 May 2008, a Libertas Election Committee (Komitet Wyborczy Libertas) had been formed and its list consisted of 130^[31] candidates, later falling to 128.^[22] The breakdown was as follows:^[31]

• Jens-Peter Bonde
• Declan Ganley
• 2009 European Parliament election
• Treaty of Lisbon