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Politics of Poland. The government of Poland takes the form of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. [1] [2] However, its form of government has also been identified as semi-presidential. [3] [4] [5] [6]
List of countries by system of government. Note: this chart represent de jure systems of government, not the de facto degree of democracy. This is a list of sovereign states by constitutionally defined de jure system of government. This list does not measure degree of democracy, political corruption, or state capacity of governments.
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the seventh largest EU country , covering a combined area of 312,696 km 2 (120,733 sq mi).
The Constitution of Poland, which is in force, was ratified on 2 April 1997. The Constitution is also commonly referred to as the 1997 Constitution. It replaced the Small Constitution of 1992, the last amended version of the Constitution of the Polish People's Republic, known from December 1989 as the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.
Poland is a country in Central Europe, bordered by Germany to the west, the Czech Republic to the southwest, Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, Lithuania to the northeast, and the Baltic Sea and Russia 's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north. It is an ancient nation whose history as a state began near the middle of the 10th century.
The government's inability to forestall Poland's economic decline led to waves of strikes across the country in April, May and August 1988. In an attempt to take control of the situation, the contemporary government gave de facto recognition to the Solidarity union, and Interior Minister Czesław Kiszczak began talks with Solidarity's leader Lech Wałęsa on August 31.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Government of Poland. This category focuses on the work of national and local government in the current state of Poland. For governments in former countries that were wholly or mainly in the territory of the current state, see Category:Governments in Poland. For other aspects of the political process in ...
This category is about the government of Poland across history. For the modern Polish Government, see Category:Government of Poland. Subcategories.