
Placard supporting the Radio Maryja station in Father Rydzyk’s Catholic-nationalist media empire, Krakow, Poland, 2013 | Flickr/Piotr Drabik. CC BY 2.0. Some rights reserved
Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, a controversial Catholic priest and éminence grise of the Polish political scene, is seen as the driving force behind a new party aiming to put forward candidates for the upcoming European Parliament elections.