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    European Union, Poland's parliament is asymmetric, where the lower chamber is dominant over the upper chamber. Unlike the Sejm, the Senate cannot unilaterally...
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    The parliament of Poland is the bicameral legislature of Poland. It is composed of an upper house (the Senate) and a lower house (the Sejm). Both houses...
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    Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Marszałek Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the presiding officer of the Senate of Poland. The...
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  • the president of the National Bank of Poland appointing judges proclaiming the holding of a nationwide referendum (a consent of the Senate is required)...
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    The 10th term Sejm and the 11th term Senate is the legislature of the Republic of Poland following the 2023 Polish parliamentary election held on 15 October...
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  • Deputy Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Wicemarszałek Senatu RP) is one of the Polish Senators in the upper house of the Polish parliament...
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    the New Left (NL), the Polish People's Party (PSL) and Poland 2050 for the 2023 Polish Senate election. The accord was agreed on 28 February 2023 by party...
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    the Senate and the King. It was thus a three-estate parliament. The 1573 Henrician Articles strengthened the assembly's jurisdiction, making Poland a constitutional...
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    the Sejm and 2 members to the Senate of Poland in the 2019 Polish parliamentary election, thus making the coalition Poland's third largest political force...
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    The president of Poland (Polish: Prezydent RP [ˈprɛ.zɘ.dɛnt ɛrˈpɛ]), officially the president of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej...
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    However, it remained in the margins of Polish politics until 2019, when it was able to win a seat in the Senate of Poland. The PPS was founded in Paris in...
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    Bogdan Borusewicz (category Members of the Senate of Poland 2005–2007)
    President of Poland until the election of the new Marshal of Sejm Grzegorz Schetyna. Borusewicz was the first Senate Marshal to become a temporary head of state...
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    as the first of its neighbors. Poland is a semi-presidential republic with its bicameral legislature comprising the Sejm and the Senate. Considered a...
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    of the Senate of Poland). The preparations for the millennial celebrations begun with the Great Novena of 1957, which marked a nine years period of fast...
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    total control of the country. In June 1946, the "Three Times Yes" referendum was held on a number of issues—abolition of the Senate of Poland, land reform...
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    – the Sejm and Senate of Poland. The construction of the complex began after Poland regained its independence in 1918. The expansion of the complex continues...
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    Krzysztof Piesiewicz (category Members of the Senate of Poland 1991–1993)
    in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish lawyer, screenwriter, and politician. From 1991 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2011 he was a member of Polish Senate. He was the...
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    Kazimierz Kleina (category Members of the Senate of Poland 1997–2001)
    University of Gdańsk with a degree in transport economics. Kleina worked as a teacher in Żukowo. He speaks fluent Kashubian. Senate of Poland, 7th Session...
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    Magdalena Biejat (category Members of the Senate of Poland 2023–2027)
    translator of Spanish-language literature. She was a member of the Sejm for Warsaw I between 2019 and 2023, when she was elected to Senate for the 45th...
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    Zbigniew Religa (category Members of the Senate of Poland 1993–1997)
    become director of both the Clinic of Cardiac Surgery No. 2 and the Institute of Cardiology. A pioneer in human heart transplantation in Poland, he led the...
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    Donald Tusk (category Members of the Senate of Poland 1997–2001)
    the prime minister of Poland since 2023, previously holding the office from 2007 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019 Tusk was President of the European Council...
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    Olbracht; 27 December 1459 – 17 June 1501) was King of Poland from 1492 to his death and Duke of Głogów from 1491 to 1498. He was the fourth Polish sovereign...
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    Józef Borzyszkowski (category Members of the Senate of Poland 1991–1993)
    Kashubian-Pomeranian Association from 1986 to 1992. He was a senator of the Senate of Poland from 1991 to 1993. Marcin Pacyno, "Borowy Młyn. Mieszkańcy żądają...
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    The 9th term Sejm and the 10th term Senate was the legislature of the Republic of Poland following the 2019 Polish parliamentary election held on 13 October...
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    The First Partition of Poland took place in 1772 as the first of three partitions that eventually ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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    Justice party (PiS). Administrative map of Poland with results of the 2007 elections to the Senate of Poland; orange: Civic Platform, navy blue: Law and...
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    Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries). During the latter period,...
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    Karol Nawrocki (category University of Gdańsk alumni)
    being elected by the Sejm and approved by the Senate of Poland. Nawrocki is the author or co-author of several books as well as numerous scientific and...
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    A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin:...
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    Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska (category Members of the Senate of Poland 2023–2027)
    as Marshal of the Senate. She was Marshal of the Sejm from 25 June 2015 to 11 November 2015 at the end of the Seventh term's composition of the lower house...
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