Editing Civic Platform (section)

==Ideology==
[[File:Marsz 4 czerwca 2023 - Platforma Obywatelska banner.jpg|thumb|Civic Platform banner carried during the opposition march on 4 June 2023]]
The Civic Platform has been mainly described as a [[centre-right]] political party.{{refn|<ref name="kaminski_198"/><ref name="zuk"/><ref name="hanley_436">{{cite journal |author1=Sean Hanley |author2=Aleks Szczerbiak |author3=Tim Haughton |author4=Brigid Fowler |year=2008 |title=Sticking Together: Explaining Comparative Centre—Right Party Success in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe |doi=10.1177/1354068808090253 |language=en |journal=Party Politics |volume=14 |issue=4 |issn=1426-8876 |page=436 |s2cid=16727049 |quote="This argument also seems broadly confirmed taking into account more recent developments in Poland where both large newer centre-right parties, Civic Platform and Law and Justice, have developed more complex ideological narratives centring on the nature of post-communist transformation."}}</ref><ref name="paczesniak_198">{{cite journal |author1=Anna Pacześniak |author2=Michał Jacuński |author3=Jean-Michel De Waele |year=2012 |title=Ideological Identification of Medium–Level Party Cadres in Poland |doi=10.15804/ppsy2012019 |language=en |journal=Polish Political Science Yearbook |volume=41 |issue=1 |issn=0208-7375 |page=383 |quote="Since 2005 the main political competitors have been two parties with Solidarity roots enjoying the highest electoral support: the right–wing Law and Justice (PiS) and the centre–right Civic Platform (PO)."|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="centre-right">PO has often been described as centre-right:
* {{cite web|url=https://politicalcritique.org/cee/poland/2017/tusk-vs-kaczynski-explaining-the-conflict/|title=Tusk VS Kaczynski, explaining the conflict.|date=4 May 2017 |access-date=10 June 2023}}
* {{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DQrc_4-H11QC&pg=PA191|author=Nathaniel Copsey|chapter=Poland:An Awkward Partner Redeemed|editor1=Simon Bulmer|editor2=Christian Lequesne|title=The Member States of the European Union|edition=Second|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|page=191|isbn=9780199544837}}
* {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FW5RbXxRMj4C&pg=PA2|author=Aleks Szczerbiak|title=Poland Within the European Union: New awkward partner or new heart of Europe?|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|page=2|isbn=9780415380737}}
* {{cite news|last=Viktor|first=Szary |date=9 September 2014|title=Poland's PM Tusk, heading for Brussels, submits resignation|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-poland-government-resignation-idUKKBN0H41SY20140909|newspaper=[[Reuters]]|access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref>{{refn|Some sources have described PO as having shifted from the centre-right to the centre.<ref name="sussex">{{cite journal|last=Szczerbiak|first=Aleks|date=30 November 2016|title=An anti-establishment backlash that shook up the party system? The October 2015 Polish parliamentary election|journal=European Politics and Society|volume=18|issue=4|pages=404–427|doi=10.1080/23745118.2016.1256027|s2cid=157951515 |url=http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/63809/1/Polish%20parliamentary%20election%202015%20EPS%20revised.pdf |quote=As discussed below, under Mr Tusk's leadership, Civic Platform turned from being a centre-right liberal-conservative party into an ideologically eclectic centrist grouping...}}</ref>}}}} Due to the peculiarity of Polish politics, as a major liberal opponent of the conservative PiS, the party is also classified as [[centrist]]<ref name="centrist">PO has often been described as centrist:
* {{cite journal|last=Szczerbiak|first=Aleks|date=2017|title=An anti-establishment backlash that shook up the party system? The October 2015 Polish parliamentary election|journal=European Politics and Society|volume=18|issue=4|pages=404–427|doi=10.1080/23745118.2016.1256027|s2cid=157951515|url=http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/63809/1/Polish%20parliamentary%20election%202015%20EPS%20revised.pdf}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Marcinkiewicz|first1=Kamil|last2=Stegmaier|first2=Mary|date=8 January 2016|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290220555|format=PDF|title=The parliamentary election in Poland, October 2015|journal=[[Electoral Studies]]|volume=41|pages=221–224|doi=10.1016/j.electstud.2016.01.004}}
* {{cite journal|last=Siemsen|first=Pascal|date=2020|title=Voting PiS: Voting Left when Voting Far-Right Populist?|journal=Polish Political Science Review|volume=8|issue=1|pages=87–99|doi=10.2478/ppsr-2020-0006|doi-access=free}}</ref> or [[centre-left]].<ref name="centre-left">PO has often been described as centre-left:
* {{cite news|url=https://www.cmi.no/publications/6861-the-perfect-enemy-from-migrants-to-sexual-minorities |title=The perfect enemy: From migrants to sexual minorities |quote=The tactic worked well for the PiS is in 2015 when anti-migrant rhetoric drummed up the party´s support before its election defeat of the governing centre-left Civic Platform. |work=CHR Michelsen Institute |date=2019 |access-date=28 February 2023}}
* {{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/poland-s-ruling-party-picks-lgbtq-rights-election-battlefront-n983681 |title=Poland's ruling party picks LGBTQ rights as election battlefront |quote=The tactic worked for PiS previously, analysts said, noting how in 2015 it used anti-migrant rhetoric to drum up support before its election defeat of the governing center-left Civic Platform. |work=[[NBC News]] |date=15 March 2019 |access-date=28 February 2023}}
* {{cite book|editor=Sharon L. Wolchik, Jane Leftwich Curry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V0hQDwAAQBAJ |title=Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy |quote= A movement spearheaded by young people to get out the vote brought the more policy-focused center left Civic Platform to power. |date=2018 |page=234 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781538100899 }}</ref> It has also been described as [[liberal-conservative]],<ref name="hanley_417">{{cite journal |author1=Sean Hanley |author2=Aleks Szczerbiak |author3=Tim Haughton |author4=Brigid Fowler |year=2008 |title=Sticking Together: Explaining Comparative Centre—Right Party Success in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe |doi=10.1177/1354068808090253 |language=en |journal=Party Politics |volume=14 |issue=4 |issn=1426-8876 |page=417 |s2cid=16727049 |quote="Instead, three new centre-right and right-wing parliamentary parties emerged: the liberal-conservative Civic Platform (PO), the national-social conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, and the clerical-nationalist League of Polish Families (LPR)."}}</ref><ref name="bale_2008">{{cite journal |author1=Tim Bale |author2=Aleks Szczerbiak |year=2008 |title=Why Is There No Christian Democracy in Poland — and Why Should We Care? |doi=10.1177/1354068808090256 |language=en |journal=Party Politics |volume=14 |issue=4 |issn=1460-3683 |page=491 |s2cid=143595310 |url=http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2728 |quote="At root, Civic Platform is a right-wing liberal or liberal-conservative, rather than an archetypal Christian Democratic, party."}}</ref><ref name="liberal-conservative">{{bulleted list|{{cite web|url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2084941/wahlkampf-attacken-im-konservativen-lager|language=german|title=Wahlkampf Attacken im konservativen Lager|access-date=29 June 2023}}|{{cite book|author1=Vít Hloušek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K79sdX-amEgC&pg=PA30|title=Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared|author2=Lubomír Kopeček|publisher=Ashgate|year=2010|isbn=978-0-7546-7840-3|page=30|access-date=9 February 2013}}|{{cite journal|last1=Hanley|first1=Seán|last2=Szczerbiak|first2=Aleks|last3=Haughton|first3=Tim|last4=Fowler|first4=Brigid|date=July 2008|title=Explaining Comparative Centre-Right Party Success in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe|url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/15030/1/15030.pdf|journal=Party Politics|volume=14|issue=4|pages=407–434|doi=10.1177/1354068808090253|s2cid=16727049}}|{{cite journal|last1=Seleny|first1=Anna|date=July 2007|title=Communism's Many Legacies in East-Central Europe|journal=Journal of Democracy|volume=18|issue=3|pages=156–170|doi=10.1353/jod.2007.0056|s2cid=154971163}}|{{cite book|author=Igor Guardiancich|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5MjBT9lQLwC&pg=PA144|title=Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe: From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-0-415-68898-7|page=144}}|{{cite book|author1=Jean-Michel De Waele|title=Europeanisation and Party Politics: How the EU affects Domestic Actors, Patterns and Systems|author2=Anna Pacześniak|publisher=ECPR Press|year=2012|isbn=978-1-907301-84-1|editor=Erol Külahci|page=131|chapter=The Europeanisation of Poland's Political Parties and Party System|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8T9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA131}}|{{cite book|author=Aleks Szczerbiak|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNa6l58HNWoC|title=Post-Communist EU Member States: Parties and Party Systems|publisher=Ashgate|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7546-4712-6|editor=Susanne Jungerstam-Mulders|location=London|page=95|chapter=Power without Love? Patterns of Party Politics in Post-1989 Poland}}}}</ref> [[Christian democratic]],<ref name="molendowska">{{cite journal |author1=Magdalena M. Molendowska |year=2017 |title=Christian Democracy in Poland (19th–21st Century) |language=en |journal=Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio K – Politologia |volume=24 |issue=1 |doi=10.17951/k.2017.24.1.179 |pages=180–196|s2cid=158351234 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="kowalczyk_250">{{cite journal |last=Kowalczyk |first=Krzysztof |year=2015 |title=Stanowiska polskich partii politycznych wobec religii i Kościoła. Propozycja typologii |issn=2353-9747 |journal=Studia Politicae Universitatis Silesiensis |volume=15 |issue=1 |publisher=University of Silesia in Katowice |language=pl |page=250 |quote="When it was established in 2001, the Civic Platform (PO) referred to liberal and conservative values. In its ideological declaration, Christian values were recognised as one of the canons."}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=José Magone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g73UtvxJsFcC&pg=PA457|title=Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Introduction|publisher=Routledge|year=2010|isbn=978-0-203-84639-1|page=457|access-date=19 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=26 May 2019|title=Poland's PiS smashes opposition in European election vote|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-law-and-justice-pis-jaroslaw-kaczynski-wins-european-election/|access-date=27 December 2021|website=POLITICO|language=en-US}}</ref> [[conservative]],<ref name="Castle2015">{{cite book|author=Marjorie Castle|title=Politics in Europe|publisher=CQ Press|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4833-2305-3|editor1=M. Donald Hancock|page=636|chapter=Poland|editor2=Christopher J. Carman|editor3=Marjorie Castle|editor4=David P. Conradt|editor5=Raffaella Y. Nanetti|editor6=Robert Leonardi|editor7=William Safran|editor8=Stephen White|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KmAXBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA636}}</ref><ref name="Standard"/> [[conservative-liberal]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://politicalcritique.org/cee/poland/2017/tusk-vs-kaczynski-explaining-the-conflict/ |title=Tusk Vs Kaczyński: Explaining the Conflict  |work=[[Krytyka Polityczna|Political Critique]] |date=4 May 2017 |access-date=21 February 2023|quote=It was actually a conservative liberal party, with a moderate conservative agenda, and moderately anti-communist.}}</ref><ref>{{bulleted list|{{cite book|last=Slomp|first=Hans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LmfAPmwE6YYC&pg=PA549|title=Europe, A Political Profile: An American Companion to European Politics|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2011|isbn=9780313391828|page=549|language=en|access-date=24 April 2019}}|{{cite book|author=Mart Laar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CM9QCOrlyOMC&pg=PA229|title=The Power of Freedom - Central and Eastern Europe after 1945|publisher=Unitas Foundation|year=2010|isbn=978-9949-21-479-2|page=229}}|{{cite book|author=Joanna A. Gorska|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIowWvWUXvQC&pg=PA104|title=Dealing with a Juggernaut: Analyzing Poland's Policy toward Russia, 1989-2009|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2012|isbn=978-0-7391-4534-0|page=104}}|{{cite book|author=Bartek Pytlas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOC9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|title=Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Mainstream Party Competition and Electoral Fortune|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1-317-49586-4|page=30}}|{{cite web|author=Florian Kellermann|url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/neue-partei-in-polen-fruehling-macht-der-linken-mitte.1773.de.html?dram:article_id=440070|title="Frühling" macht der linken Mitte Hoffnung|date=4 February 2019|website=[[Deutschlandfunk]]}}}}</ref>  [[classical-liberal]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S8ICDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Civic&pg=PA207|author=Alan G. Smith|title=A Comparative Introduction to Political Science: Contention and Cooperation|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2016|page=207|isbn=9781442252608}}</ref> [[Liberalism|liberal]],<ref>{{bulleted list|{{cite book|author=Paul Kubicek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAcqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA257|title=European Politics|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=978-1-317-20638-5|page=257}}|{{cite book|author=Tomasz Zarycki|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygAkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA206|title=Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-1-317-81857-1|page=206}}|{{Cite news|last1=Charlish|first1=Alan|last2=Koper|first2=Anna|date=3 July 2021|title=Poland's Tusk returns to frontline to face old foe Kaczynski|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polands-tusk-returns-frontline-vowing-lead-opposition-victory-2021-07-03/|access-date=27 December 2021}}|{{Cite web|date=15 September 2017|title=Poland's rightwing government takes control of NGO funding|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20170915-polands-rightwing-government-takes-control-ngo-funding|access-date=27 December 2021|website=France 24|language=en}}|{{Cite web|date=3 July 2021|title=Poland's Tusk returns to frontline, vowing to lead opposition to victory|url=https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/03/us-poland-politics|access-date=27 December 2021|website=euronews|language=en}}|{{cite book|author=David Ost|title=The New Politics of European Civil Society|publisher=Routledge|year=2011|isbn=978-0-415-57845-5|editor1=Ulrike Liebert|page=177|chapter=The decline of civil society after 'post-communism'|editor2=Hans-Jörg Trenz|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bS8Ms0OZl3cC&pg=PA177}}}}</ref> and [[social-liberal]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Explainer: Whatever happened to Polish liberal conservatives?|url=https://polandin.com/38964630/explainer-whatever-happened-to-polish-liberal-conservatives|website=Polandin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Szczepański|first=Jarosław|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/939904795|title=Raport z badania : trójkąt ideologiczny|date=2015|publisher=Wydział Dziennikarstwa i Nauk Politycznych UW|others=Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Dziennikarstwa i Nauk Politycznych|isbn=978-83-63183-98-1|location=Warszawa|oclc=939904795}}</ref> It was also described as [[Realpolitik|pragmatic]] and [[big tent]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=4 May 2017|title=Is Poland's Civic Platform a serious threat to the ruling party?|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/05/04/is-polands-civic-platform-a-serious-threat-to-the-ruling-party/|access-date=27 December 2021|website=EUROPP}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Riishøj|first=Søren|date=2011|title=The Civic Platform in Poland - the first decade 2001-2011|url=https://www.sdu.dk/-/media/files/om_sdu/institutter/statskundskab/skriftserie/sri+civic+platform_hjemmeside.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227005203/https://www.sdu.dk/-/media/files/om_sdu/institutter/statskundskab/skriftserie/sri+civic+platform_hjemmeside.pdf|archive-date=27 December 2021|publisher=University of Southern Denmark|issn=1399-7319}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Szczerbiak|first=Aleks|date=18 January 2016|title=What Are The Prospects For Poland's Opposition?|url=https://socialeurope.eu/what-are-the-prospects-for-polands-opposition|access-date=27 December 2021|website=Social Europe|language=en-GB}}</ref> It supports Poland's membership in the [[European Union]].<ref name="Ingo Peters 2011 2802">{{cite book|author=Ingo Peters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3LsDJWq7DAC&pg=PA280|title=20 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Transitions, State Break-Up and Democratic Politics in Central Europe and Germany|publisher=BWV Verlag|year=2011|isbn=978-3-8305-1975-1|page=280|access-date=6 February 2013}}</ref>

Since 2007, when Civic Platform formed the government, the party has gradually moved from its Christian-democratic stances, and many of its politicians hold more liberal positions on social issues. In 2013, the Civic Platform's government introduced public funding of ''[[in vitro]]'' fertilization program. Civic Platform also supports [[civil union]]s for same-sex couples but is against [[same-sex marriage]] and the [[Same-sex adoption|adoption of children by same-sex couples]]. The party also currently supports [[Abortion in Poland|liberalization of the abortion law]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=18 February 2021|title=Platforma Obywatelska przedstawia nowe stanowisko w sprawie aborcji|url=https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/platforma-obywatelska-przedstawia-nowe-stanowisko-w-spawie-aborcji/n1qs8m8|access-date=9 March 2021|website=Onet Wiadomości|language=pl}}</ref> which it had opposed while in government.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Premier na Kongresie Kobiet: przeciw radykalnym rozwiązaniom|url=https://polskieradio24.pl/art3_867160|access-date=9 March 2021|website=PolskieRadio24.pl}}</ref>

PO was described as [[neoliberal]],<ref name="kaminski_198">{{cite journal |author1=Paweł Kamiński |author2=Patrycja Rozbicka |year=2016 |title=Political Parties and Trade Unions in the Post-Communist Poland: Class Politics that Have Never a Chance to Happen |doi=10.15804/ppsy2016015 |language=en |journal=Polish Political Science Yearbook |volume=45 |issue=1 |issn=0208-7375 |page=198 |quote="Interestingly, though, more of them have supported the neoliberal centre-right Civil Platform, which in power with its coalition partner PSL (Polish Peasants’ Party) since 2008 until 2015."}}</ref><ref name="shields_367">{{cite journal |author1=Stuart Shield |year=2012 |title=Opposing Neoliberalism? Poland's Renewed Populism and Post-Communist Transition |doi=10.15804/ppsy2016015 |language=en |journal=Third World Quarterly |volume=33 |issue=2 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41507174 |page=367 |jstor=41507174 |quote="Despite this, the two centre-right parties, the neoliberal Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska - PO) and Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc - PIS), failed to offer any serious credible alternative."}}</ref><ref name="zuk">{{cite journal |author1=Piotr Żuk |author2=Anna Pacześniak |date=15 December 2022 |title=Is it possible to defeat right-wing populist authorities by winning elections? The erosion of democracy and the system of the triple-masters class in Poland |language=en |journal=Frontiers in Political Science |volume=4 |issue=1 |doi=10.3389/fpos.2022.1040616 |page=7 |quote="KO is made up of several parties, the largest of which is Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska—PO). PO was in power twice: from 2007 until 2011 and later, between 2011 and 2015, acting as a senior partner in a coalition with the Polish People’s Party (PSL) and occupied the office of the Prime Minister for two full terms. This center-right party formed in 2001 combines economic neoliberalism with social conservatism." |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>PO has often been described as neoliberal:
* {{Cite news|title=Poland's government|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/poland-s-government-1.510232|access-date=27 December 2021|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}
* {{Cite web|last1=Kamiński|first1=Paweł|last2=Rozbicka|first2=Patrycja|date=2016|title=Political Parties and Trade Unions in the Post-Communist Poland: Class Politics that Have Never a Chance to Happen|url=https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/29217/1/PPSY45130_Manuscript.pdf}}
* {{Cite journal|last=Shields|first=Stuart|date=April 2012|title=Opposing Neoliberalism? Poland's renewed populism and post-communist transition|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2012.666016|journal=Third World Quarterly|language=en|volume=33|issue=2|pages=359–381|doi=10.1080/01436597.2012.666016|s2cid=154652204 |issn=0143-6597|url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[economically liberal]],<ref name="Standard">{{Cite news|title=Wahlkampf-Attacken im konservativen Lager |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2084941/wahlkampf-attacken-im-konservativen-lager|access-date=1 April 2023|newspaper=[[Der Standard]]|language=de|date= 29 June 2005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title= Zur Lage der Bürgerplattform (PO) in Polen |url=https://www.kas.de/pl/web/polen/laenderberichte/detail/-/content/zur-lage-der-buergerplattform-po-in-polen|access-date=1 April 2023|newspaper=[[Konrad Adenauer Foundation]]|language=de|date= 25 April 2008}}</ref> and [[fiscal conservatism|fiscally conservative]].<ref>{{Cite news|title= Polish nurses set to strike over low pay  |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-nurses-set-strike-over-low-pay-2/|access-date=1 April 2023|newspaper=[[Politico]]|language=en|date=10 September 2015}}</ref> Despite this and declaring in the parliamentary election campaign the will to limit taxation in Poland,<ref name="Standard"/> it increased the excise imposed on diesel oil, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and oil.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forsal.pl/artykuly/736318,rzad-podwyzsza-akcyze-i-zamraza-place.html|title=ząd podwyższa akcyzę i zamraża płace|access-date=31 August 2014|date=2 October 2013 |publisher=forsal.pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://wyborcza.biz/biznes/1,101562,10692214,Rzad_zaciska_pasa__zamraza_pensje__podnosi_akcyze.html|title=Rząd zaciska pasa: zamraża pensje, podnosi akcyzę na papierosy i paliwa|access-date=31 August 2014|date=23 October 2011|publisher=wyborcza.biz}}</ref> The party refrained from implementing the flat tax, instead increasing [[value-added tax]] from 22% to 23% in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ekonomia.rp.pl/artykul/517559-Plan-przyjety--VAT-w-gore.html |title=Rzeczpospolita |publisher=rp.pl |date=8 March 2010 |access-date=31 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140927235812/http://www.ekonomia.rp.pl/artykul/517559-Plan-przyjety--VAT-w-gore.html |archive-date=27 September 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The party also eliminated many [[tax exemption]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Dzis-dowiemy-sie-dlaczego-rzad-zabierze-nam-ulgi-2578419.html|title=Dziś dowiemy się, dlaczego rząd zabierze nam ulgi|access-date=31 August 2014|date=26 July 2012|publisher=bankier.pl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mamstartup.pl/poradnik/5299/zmiany-w-odliczaniu-vat-od-samochodow-sprawdz-ile-i-kiedy-mozesz-odliczyc|author=Sebastian Bobrowski|title=Zmiany w odliczaniu VAT od samochodów. Sprawdź ile i kiedy możesz odliczyć|access-date=31 August 2014|date=25 March 2014|publisher=mamstartup.pl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419025848/http://mamstartup.pl/poradnik/5299/zmiany-w-odliczaniu-vat-od-samochodow-sprawdz-ile-i-kiedy-mozesz-odliczyc|archive-date=19 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sejm.gov.pl/sejm7.nsf/agent.xsp?symbol=glosowania&nrkadencji=7&nrposiedzenia=3&nrglosowania=25|title=Głosowanie nad przyjęciem w całości projektu ustawy o zmianie niektórych ustaw związanych z realizacją ustawy budżetowej, w brzmieniu proponowanym przez Komisję Finansów Publicznych, wraz z przyjętymi poprawkami|date=16 December 2011|access-date=31 August 2014|publisher=sejm.gov.pl}}</ref> In response to the [[climate crisis]], the Civic Platform has promised to end the use of [[coal]] for [[energy in Poland]] by 2040.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/poland-coal-phase-2040-opposition/|title=Poland coal phase out pledged for 2040 by opposition government|language=en-US|access-date=12 October 2019}}</ref>

After becoming the biggest opposition party, the Civic Platform became more [[culturally liberal]] and [[populist]].<ref name="riishoj_30">{{cite journal |author=Søren Riishøj |author-link=:da:Søren Riishøj |year=2010 |title=The Civic Platform in Poland - the first decade 2001-2011 |language=en |journal=Political Science Publications |volume=24 |issue=1 |page=30 |quote="In other words, on the policy and programme level the Civic Platform (PO) developed into a centre-right soft Thatcherite liberal, anti-communist, soft Christian nationalist and populist party."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-politicians-donald-tusk-attack-migrants-for-electoral-gain/|title=Polish politicians attack migrants for electoral gain|date=9 July 2023 |quote="Donald Tusk is toying with anti-migrant language to match the tone of the ruling Law and Justice party.|access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/06/poland-protests-eu-hungary-spat-show-right-and-wrong-way-to-fight-for-democracy/90103ce0-0421-11ee-b74a-5bdd335d4fa2_story.html|title=There Are Right and Wrong Ways to Fight For Democracy|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="wrobel_445">{{cite journal |author1=Szymon Wróbel |year=2011 |title=Mourning Populism. The Case of Poland |language=en |journal=Polish Sociological Review |volume=176 |issue=1 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41478893 |pages=445, 448 |jstor=41478893 |quote="On the other hand however, the victory of Civic Platform (CP) [Platforma Obywatelska] in the parliamentary elections in September 2007 had much to do with the promise of a new Ireland, our dream to come true. The fact that it was such a successful message and that it became a true banner of the victory allows us to see CP’s success in terms of populism. (...) If we come back to Laclau’s distinction one could even say that CP’s populism and L&J’s populism seek to attain what Laclau recognizes as unconceivable."}}</ref> This tendency is especially popular among the younger generation of the party's politicians, such as [[mayor of Warsaw]] and presidential candidate [[Rafał Trzaskowski]]. The party has also changed its opinion about the social programs of PiS, starting to support them.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/artykuly/1485161,trzaskowski-program-500-plus-in-vitro-nord-stream-2.html|title= Trzaskowski: 500 plus musi być bronione|work=gazetaprawna.pl|date= 2 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ideologia.pl/program-partii-platforma-obywatelska/|title= Program Partii Platforma Obywatelska|date= 4 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.badaniawyborcze.pl/index.php/wybory/partie-kandydaci|title= Partie i kandydaci
}}</ref> Since being in government again, the party has taken an [[opposition to immigration|anti-immigration]] stance to migrants coming from Russia and Belarus.<ref name="migration_list">{{bulleted list|{{cite web |url=https://talk.tv/top-stories/49270/donald-tusk-immigration-civilisational-threat |title=Uncontrolled immigration will lead to 'world collapse' warns Poland's new PM Donald Tusk |date=14 February 2024 |quote="During his election campaign, Mr Tusk drew on anti-immigration themes that drew criticism from the country’s left wing for “competing with the far right”." |website=talk.tv}}|{{cite web |url=https://novaramedia.com/2023/10/02/on-migration-the-polish-left-has-all-but-given-up/ |title=On Migration, the Polish Left Has All But Given Up |first1=Dan |last1=Davison |first2=Ewa |last2=Pospieszyńska |date=2 October 2023 |quote="With the Civic Coalition trying to woo Law and Justice voters by repackaging its xenophobia, it falls to the Polish left to change the narrative on immigration." |website=Novara Media}}|{{cite web |url=https://www.intellinews.com/new-poll-indicates-polish-opposition-could-edge-out-pis-in-new-parliament-292244/ |title=New poll indicates Polish opposition could edge out PiS in new parliament |date=11 September 2023 |first=Dawid |last=Kość |quote="In a recent video, KO employed similar images of migration that PiS also used in their overtly anti-immigration materials, both in the current and the previous campaigns." |website=IntelliNews}}|{{cite web |url=https://ecre.org/poland-opposition-takes-majority-in-elections-people-on-the-move-are-victims-of-political-game-at-belarus-border/ |title=Poland: Opposition Takes Majority in Elections, People on the Move are Victims of “Political Game” At Belarus Border |date=20 October 2023 |website=ecre.org |quote="Migration was one of the most heated topics in the election campaign and even the opposition adopted anti-migration rhetoric."}}}}|{{cite web |url=https://oko.press/tusk-zapowiada-zawieszenie-prawa-do-azylu/ |title=“A powerful shot from a cannon.” Tusk announces suspension of right to asylum |date=12 October 2024 |website=oko.press |quote="There is no surprise, but Prime Minister Tusk went further than expected: he announced the suspension of the right to asylum. He said: “One of the elements of the migration strategy will be a temporary, territorial suspension of the right to asylum, and I will demand recognition in Europe for this decision.}}</ref>