He spent less than three years of his thirty-year reign in Poland, where political feuding between the House of Czartoryski and the Potocki paralysed the Sejm (Liberum Veto), fostering internal political anarchy and weakening the Commonwealth.
In August 1919, the Sejm (lower house of parliament) of the renascent Republic of Poland adopted a law defining the Banner of the Republic of Poland (chorągiew Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej).
The dispute only ended in 1452 during the Polish Sejm in Piotrków, where Bolko V even offered the Polish King Casimir IV financial assistance for a war against the Teutonic Order in exchange for the district of Wieluń as a lien (the proposal wasn't accepted).
German parties are not subject to the 5% threshold during the Sejm elections so Germans are able to obtain two seats.
It was Rzewuski who pronounced a recognition of de Witte family's indygenat (the recognition of foreign status as a noble) in 1764, four years later positively approved by the Polish Sejm.
In 1928–1930 Dr. Stankievič was member of the Polish Sejm.
Passendorfer served in the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, from 1993 to 1997 on the Democratic Left Alliance list.
In the aftermath of the 1905 pogroms in Russia, the historian Simon Dubnow founded the Folkspartei (Yiddishe Folkspartay) which had some intellectual audience in Russia, then, in independent Poland and Lithuania in the 1920–1930s where it was represented as well in the Parliaments (Sejm, Seimas) as in numerous municipal councils (incl. Warsaw) till in the late 1930s.
In the spring of 1575, after the escape of King Henryk Walezy, the town was the seat of the so-called "Stężyca Sejm" (May 12 - June 4, 1575).
The situation did not change even after the Sejm (Polish parliament) had gathered in Piotrków in 1438, and declared the fourteen-year-old king to have attained his majority.
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CBOS's work is supervised by a board established per the 1997 law, consisting of seven academic experts appointed by the council of ministers the and representatives of the Sejm, the Senate, the prime minister, and the president.
Edward Wojtas (March 1, 1955 in Wólka Modrzejowa – April 10, 2010) was a member of the Polish Sejm and a politician active in the Polish People's Party (PSL).
Poland has a long history of elections dating several centuries, including the elections to Sejm from 1182 and the elective monarchy from 1569 to 1795.
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The remaining one-third of the seats in the Sejm and all those in the Senate were freely contested; the majority of these were by candidates supported by Solidarity.
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Great Sejm – or the Four-Years Sejm of 1798–1792, which voted for the May Constitution of Poland;
Elżbieta Renata Jakubiak (born 17 March 1966 in Zatory, Poland) is a Polish politician, sports and tourism minister in the government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was head of the Polish President's Cabinet with the rank of secretary of state, and deputy to the Sejm sixth term of office.
He was Acting President 2010–2011, between the death of the IPN's second President Janusz Kurtyka in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash and the election of Łukasz Kamiński by the Sejm as the third President.
Franciszek Stefaniuk (born June 4, 1944 in Drelów) is Polish politician from Agrarian Polish People's Party (Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe), who serve as a Sejm Member since Contract Sejm (1989).
Gabriel Janowski (born on 22 April 1947 in Konstantów) – Polish politician, activist of opposition in People's Republic of Poland, senator of the first term of office of Senate of the Republic of Poland, MP of first, third and fourth term of office of Sejm, from 1991 do 1993 the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
At the 2007 Parliamentary elections the candidate list to the Sejm (Polish parliament) got 8.81% of the votes in Opole Voivodeship, and only one seat in the Sejm, Ryszard Galla (8,193 votes).
She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 receiving 10981 votes in 11 Sieradz district, a candidate in the Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
The Constitution abolished pernicious parliamentary institutions such as the liberum veto, which at one time had placed a sejm at the mercy of any deputy who might choose, or be bribed by an interest or foreign power, to undo all the legislation that had been passed by that sejm.
The Grodno Sejm, held in fall of 1793 in Grodno, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now Hrodna, Belarus) is infamous because its deputies, bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire, passed the act of Second Partition of Poland.
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz was along with Monika Olejnik, an influential journalist, a murder target of Brunon K., who was arrested in November 2012 in connection with preparation of terrorist attack on Sejm.
Gustaw Holoubek (1923 – 2008), Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and senator
Helena Kurnatowska: 1929, Polish politician who served as a Member of Sejm from 1976 to 1985.
Jan Albin Goetz (Jan Goetz-Okocimski) (born July 18, 1864 in Okocim, Poland, died April 24, 1931 in Okocim) was a Polish brewer of German ancestry, head of Okocim Brewery, a philanthropist and patron of the arts, a "Freiherr" (baron) of the Hapsburg Empire, a conservative politician, activist and a member of the Austrian parliament and Polish sejm.
In October 2012, Gowin abstained from voting on the government's opposition to a stricter abortion control law submitted to the Sejm by United Poland.
She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005, getting 9,723 votes in 16 Płock district, as a candidate for the Democratic Left Alliance.
On 17 March 2006, a special event was organized in his honor, with a mass led by the bishop of Lublin, Józef Życiński, and a memorial ceremony attended by the last president of the Polish government-in-exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, the director of the Institute of National Remembrance, Janusz Kurtyka, and several members of the Polish parliament (Sejm).
Before his death, he had a promising career - political (Sejm deputy of 1629 and 1630, official from 1630) and literary - author of a (now lost) history of the False Dmitriys and a philosophical text.
Krzysztof Rutkowski (born April 6, 1960 in Teresin near Sochaczew, Poland) is a private "detective" (with no licence, so according to Polish and International law, can't be called a detective), Polish ex-politician, former ex-member of Sejm, occasional actor and celebrity.
Krzysztof Ryszard Sikora (born 1959) - Member of Polish Sejm V Term (2005–2007)
As such, in 1928 he got involved in the BBWR movement and the same year he was elected to the Sejm.
Creation of such specific unit was first proposed by President of Lithuania, Algirdas Brazauskas, during his speech in Polish parliament (Sejm) in 1995.
Małgorzata Rohde (born 7 October 1962 in Drawsko Pomorskie) is a Polish politician and former Member of the Sejm for Koszalin (19 October 2001 to 18 October 2005).
Michał Hieronim Krasiński (b. 1712, d. May 25, 1784) was a Polish noble, cześnik of Stężyca, podkomorzy of Różan, starost of Opiniogóra, deputy to many Sejms, one of the leaders of Bar Confederation (1768–1772).
Paweł Skórzewski (Ogończyk coat of arms) (born July 29, 1744 in Mączniki - died in 1819) was Polish Brigadier General of the Duchy of Warsaw, a member of the Bar Confederation, a delegate to the Polish Sejm, senator of the Kingdom of Poland and wojewoda of Kalisz.
In 1496 the Sejm approved the creation of a national currency, the złoty, and its value was set at 30 groszy, a coin minted since 1347 and modelled on the Prague groschen.
The Council of Ministers is responsible to the prime minister and the Sejm; the prime minister proposes, the president appoints, and the Sejm approves the Council of Ministers.
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Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament (known together by the very same name as the lower house "Sejm"), the Sejm and the Senate.
He was elected to Sejm in 2001 and reelected on September 25, 2005, receiving 31,253 votes in 33 Kielce district as a candidate on the Law and Justice list.
Notable politicians of the Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw included: Józef Godlewski, Tomasz A. Ostrowski, Stanisław Sołtyk, Stanisław Staszic, Wawrzyniec Surowiecki and Józef Wybicki.
Historian Norman Davies wrote that this Sejm "effectively terminated the independence of Poland and Lithuania".
The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn was established on September 1, 1999, in accordance with the new Statute of Sejm signed by the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, as well as the Minister of National Education, Mirosław Handke, in August of the same year.
In 1653, one of its elders, a delegate to Warsaw Sejm, Władysław Siciński (Polish name, in Lithuanian known as Čičinskas), bribed by Janusz Radziwiłł, was the first person to execute his Liberum veto rights in order to disrupt Sejm convention.
Working together, in an unlikely alliance between the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Russia, papal nuncio Giovanni Andrea Archetti and Russian ambassador Otto Magnus von Stackelberg jointly bribed deputies to the Polish Sejm in exchange for their opposition to the Code.
Wojciech Żukowski (born 1964), Polish politician, ex-Voivode of Lublin, member of Sejm
Elected Sejm member the same year, he became chairman of the PPS caucus, replacing Norbert Barlicki in 1926.