Good Movement

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Good Movement (Dobry Ruch) is a Polish liberal political party with libertarian ideas. It was formed on 19 April 2023 as a rebranding of the We Can party (Możemy). The party is led by Paweł Szramka, a former MP from Kukiz’15 who became the national coordinator.

Szramka has been in the Sejm since 2015. He left Kukiz’15 in 2020, started the Polish Affairs group with Agnieszka Ścigaj and Andrzej Sośnierz (later joined by Zbigniew Girzyński), and planned to create a new party. After disagreements, he left in 2022. In August 2023, Szramka announced that Good Movement would run on the Civic Coalition’s list. The party’s board supported joining the coalition to unite opposition to Law and Justice. In the 2023 elections, Szramka ran on the Civic Coalition list but did not win a seat; the coalition won four seats in his constituency.

Before becoming Good Movement, Możemy described itself as classical liberal and pro-European, focused on personal, economic, and political freedom. The party advocated liberal social policies such as cannabis legalization, civil partnerships, separation of church and state, and decentralization.

Economically, the party pushed for deregulation, cutting bureaucracy, and limiting taxes. It spoke of reducing or abolishing some taxes and replacing public financing with more private options. It called for eliminating public media influence, reforming public spending, and supporting energy choices like renewables and nuclear power. The group also supported direct democracy and local decision-making.

On social issues, Good Movement supported the legalization of same-sex civil partnerships and more liberal abortion rules. It favored decentralization and reducing state interference in people’s lives. For foreign policy, the party backed NATO and European integration, but it did not want a European superstate. While close to some free-market ideas, it kept a distance from the more controversial positions of the Confederation.