However, controversies over domestic reforms, Poland's 1999 entry into NATO, and the accession process to the European Union, combined with "AWS"' fights with its political allies (the Freedom Union—"Unia Wolności") and infighting within "AWS" itself, as well as corruption, eventually resulted in the loss of much public support. "AWS" leader Marian Krzaklewski lost the 2000 presidential election, and in the 2001 parliamentary elections "AWS" failed to elect a single deputy to the parliament. After this debacle, Krzaklewski was replaced by Janusz Śniadek (in 2002) but the union decided to distance itself from politics.