Talk:Politics of Poland

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Re: political parties

5% seems to be a much more natural choice, since (as you know) it is the minimal support needed to enter parliament. In fact the 3% threshold seems somewhat artificial and specially chosen for unia wolnosci, which currently enjoys the support of 3% + \epsilon of the population. I do think it is accurate to consider this party political plancton, as it doesn't even get mentioned by the mass media when voter preferences are disscused.
 * P.S. ditto for SKL N.N. 04:49 8 mar. 2004 (UTC)
 * No problem. The point is that just last Monday I saw Frasyniuk on TV in Forum program. But you for sure made me reconsider my point. Will fix it right now. BTW. Why don't you create an account?. It gives you more privacy. Przepla 16:16, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism
It seems that we have clueless vandal here. User:Annygirl or User:Anna2004 apparently does not like the suffrage section and is inserting gibberish. One wonders when this user get bored with that. In the meantime, please be vigilant about this page.Przepla 15:27, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Major edit
I've updated and reorganised the article so that it's a better read. I think that the current ordering of information is the most useful to a new reader, who is likely to be most interested in 1) what's been happening recently, and 2) what is the general political structure. The rewrite of what went on during 2000-2005 is largely from my own memory (while trying to keep what was written already). I suppose that what can still be remembered several years on should correlate with what was important... Deuar 22:44, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

National Security
"National Security" doesn't seem to fit in with this article... If we have that, we might as well add "social security", "foreign affairs", "internal affairs", "economics", etc. etc. It should rather be in an article devoted to foreign affairs rather than politics, IMHO. Deuar 22:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Kononowicz
I'm not sure if Krzysztof Kononowicz should be in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Polish_politicians --84.234.60.154 (talk) 14:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Leader
what happens if the president dies. is a new one elected or does the prime minister become president until teh next round of elections? also it says that the president appoints the prime minister yet donald tusk is of the opposing party and everywhere else it says that the party with the most votes gets to choose the prime minister. which way is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.105.223.62 (talk) 01:08, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

The president appoints the prime minister, who then appoints the government, but the government has to win a confidence vote in the parliament within 2 weeks. That means that the most likely canditate for a prime minister would be the leader of the majority party as no one else is likely to form a government that doesn't get rejected by the majority. It would be quite silly for the president to choose his brother as prime minister only to trigger another election when he is rejected by the sejm (actually, it is technically possible and this possibility was even suggested in the media at the time, but it would have been suicidal from a political point of view). --95.50.27.137 (talk) 12:37, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

President of Poland
I come from Poland, you don't know anything about the President of Poland! He has many competitions in the foreign politics! He is not only a representative person. It's not Germany. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.76.37.180 (talk) 16:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course the President of Poland is not merely ceremonial, a political veto can only be overridden a by 3/5 majority, this is a lie spread on Wikipedia by people with an English-centric view, who considered if the President is not both the head of state and head of government, and the Prime Minister appointment requires investiture unlike the French case, then is parliamentary, this also happened with Portugal. So I have got news for you, it's not. The same thing goes for Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine. — B.Lameira (talk) 21:21, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Parliamentarism?
I just read that the Polish system could best be described as somewhere between parliamentarism and presidentialism. There is a term for this, semipresidentialism. An example of such a system is France. Would it not be better to describe Poland as a semipresidential system rather than as a parliamentary one? This article: http://webpages.dcu.ie/~mcmenami/Poland_semi-presidentialism_2.pdf argues that Poland is semi-presidential. --Oddeivind (talk) 13:52, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Polish system of government is closer to the Portuguese and Lithuanian systems than the French one. See Comparative Politics: Structures and Choices and Semi-Presidentialism: Sub-Types And Democratic Performance.
 * The first link says this system is typical of many post-communist states. The second one states "The list of countries includes cases that almost everyone would agree to be semi-presidential, including France, Lithuania, Poland, and Portugal." — B.Lameira (talk) 19:20, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Additionally, see: Semi-Presidential Systems: Dual Executive and Mixed Authority Patterns -- B.Lameira (talk) 13:03, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Important notice
The government section of the "Outline of Poland" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.

When the country outlines were created, temporary data (that matched most of the countries but not all) was used to speed up the process. Those countries for which the temporary data does not match must be replaced with the correct information.

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Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Transhumanist (talk • contribs) 12:09, December 12, 2011

Constitution
According to this Constitution, Poland is parliamentary state but not semi-presidential.--5.172.232.243 (talk) 20:53, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Government system?
They are controversial because the consitution says it is a parliamentary republic but in fact it is a semi presidential republic.2404:8000:1027:85F6:109A:5AA:7E5E:48DA (talk) 11:19, 11 March 2023 (UTC)