Wincenty Witos: Difference between revisions

In November 1925, the government of [[Prime Minister of Poland|Prime Minister]] [[Władysław Grabski]] was replaced by the government led by Minister of Foreign Affairs [[Aleksander Skrzyński]], which had received support from the [[National Democracy (Poland)|National Democrats]] and the [[Polish Socialist Party]]. General [[Lucjan Żeligowski]] became the new government's [[Minister of Military Affairs|minister of military affairs]]. However, after the PPS withdrew its support, this government also fell and was replaced by that of Witos, formed by the [[Polish People's Party "Piast" (1913–31)|Polish People's Party "Piast"]] and the [[Christian Union of National Unity]] ([[Chjeno-Piast]]). However, the new government had even less popular support than the previous ones, and pronouncements from [[Józef Piłsudski]], who viewed the constant power shifts in the [[Sejm]] as chaotic and damaging, set the stage for a [[coup d'état]]. Apart from domestic turmoil, Polish politics had been shaken by a [[trade war]] with Germany, begun in June 1925, and by the signing of the [[Treaty of Locarno]] on 161 OctoberDecember. Under the terms of the treaty, the World War I western European [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] powers andplus theGermany newguaranteed statesthe inviolability of Centralthe andGerman Easternborder Europewith soughtBelgium toand secureFrance aas postwardetermined territorialby settlementthe in[[Treaty returnof for normalized relations with defeated GermanyVersailles]]. On 10 May 1926, a coalition government of Christian Democrats and Agrarians was formed, and that same day Józef Piłsudski, in an interview with Kurier Poranny (the Morning Courier), said that he was "ready to fight the evil" of sejmocracy and promised a "sanation" (restoration to health) of political life. The newspaper edition was confiscated by the authorities.