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Topic: Polish parliamentary election, 2001

	Parliamentary Election Law (2001) - Legislationline - free online legislation database
		ON ELECTIONS TO THE SEJM OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
		Election wards shall be established for voters aboard Polish maritime vessels continuing their voyage for a period of time including polling day if there are at least 15 voters aboard, and if there is the capacity to transmit the results of voting immediately after its conclusion.
		Election committees shall, in the name of political parties and of voters, engage in electoral activities, in particular the nomination of candidates for deputies to the Sejm and candidates for senators, and shall exclusively conduct the election campaign on their behalf.
	www.legislationline.org /legislation.php?tid=57&lid=798&less=false (11909 words)

	Map & Graph: Countries by Background: Background
		Parliamentary elections held in August 2001 provided Fiji with a democratically elected government and gave a mandate to the government of Prime Minister Laisenia QARASE.
		Solidarity suffered a major defeat in the 2001 parliamentary elections when it failed to elect a single deputy to the lower house of Parliament, and the new leaders of the Solidarity Trade Union subsequently pledged to reduce the Trade Union's political role.
		In late 2001, a conference in Bonn, Germany, established a process for political reconstruction that ultimately resulted in the adoption of a new constitution and presidential election in 2004.
	www.nationmaster.com /graph-T/bac_bac (12014 words)

	Election
		By-election A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has d...
		Election law Election Law is a discipline falling at the juncture of constitutional law and political science.
		Election of the House of Councillors, 2004 The election for the half of the seats in the 2004.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/election.html (6741 words)

	History of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		By the leading nobles Boleslaw was thoroughly hated as a despot; the masses of the people murmured under the burden of incessant wars; the clergy opposed the energetic reformation of the Church, which the king was carrying on, their opposition being particularly directed against Gregory's decree enforcing the celibacy of the clergy.
		Polish Catholics rejoiced at the elevation of a Pole to the papacy and greeted his June 1979 visit to Poland with an outpouring of emotion.
		Polish prosecutors subsequently decided that there was insufficient evidence to charge Oleksy, and a parliamentary commission decided in November 1996 that the Polish intelligence services may have violated rules of procedure in gathering evidence in the Oleksy case.
	www.historyofnations.net /europe/poland.html (2744 words)

	CNN.com - Polish government facing defeat - September 20, 2001
		Parliamentary elections take place on Sunday, the fifth since 1989, and the country's main opposition coalition is likely to romp home.
		The elections could be the final nail in the coffin of the coalition hinged around Solidarity, the party so influential in Poland's democratic transformation.
		In the parliamentary elections four years ago, huge floods prompted the demise of the coalition government of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish Peasants Party.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/09/20/poland.election (626 words)

	Cameroon
		In 1997 CPDM leader Paul Biya won reelection as President in an election boycotted by the three main opposition parties, marred by a wide range of procedural flaws, and generally considered by observers not to be free and fair.
		Elections are held by balloting that officially is described as secret but may permit voters to leave the polling place with evidence of how they voted.
		Election irregularities especially were egregious in opposition strongholds, where boycotting opposition activists chose not to be present to monitor the voting count.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8285.htm (19182 words)

	Poland
		During the parliamentary elections, TVN was the first commercial station to compete with TVP's traditional monopoly on election night coverage.
		During September elections, the number of females in Parliament increased from 63 to 94 (of 460), and from 19 to 22 (of 100) in the Senate.
		Polish women and children are trafficked to western European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland for sexual exploitation.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8321.htm (13358 words)

	POLISH NEWS - Straight from POLAND - February 2001. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Polish President Aleksander Kwaoniewski played host to the heads of state of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to mark the 10th anniversary of the Visehrad Group, an alliance of Central Europe's most dynamically developing countries.
		Polish police have smashed an underground lab producing the deadly drug, believed to be one of the largest such operations in Europe.
		Polish motorists are having trouble obeying new traffic regulations that went into effect at the start of the year.
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/straight/2001/hotnews58_1.shtml (1535 words)

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		After the election defeat in 1993 more cooperation and unification was needed, because the victory of SLD and PSL at the 1993 election had primarily been due to the split among right-wing parties on both actoral as wells as policy level.
		With the negative experience from the presidential election in 1995 in mind, the majority of the delegates insisted that the political right should be presented by one common candidate in order to bring that new candidate in the strongest possible position in the struggle against the post-communist candidate, the then popular acting president Aleksander Kwasniewski.
		The initiative to establish the election alliance AWS has to be seen in the context of the defeat at the 1993 election and the subsequent presidential election in 1995.
	www.sam.sdu.dk /~sr/poland_uk.htm (10794 words)

	A short history of Poland
		The Polish unity states is divided into several principalities since 1138, until 1180 under nominal coordination by one of the princes, styled Senior Polish Prince.
		An important event is the election of the bishop of Krakow, Karol Wojtyla, in 1979 to become Pope John Paul II, head of the roman catholic church.
		The 2001 elections are won by the SLD and a coalition of the SLD, the PSL and the Unia Pracy (Labour Union, UP) under Leszek Miller (SLD) is formed.
	www.electionworld.org /history/poland.htm (1408 words)

	Polish National Election Study
		Polish NES (Polskie Generalne Studium Wyborcze) is aimed - among other objectives - at joining the international community of National Election Studies.
		The duration of the project is envisaged for 1997-1999 and expected to cover the 1997 parliamentary election only.
		The duration of the project is envisaged for 2001-2003 and expected to cover the 2001 parliamentary election only.
	www.isppan.waw.pl /pgsw/pgsw1997/pgsw1997eng.html (541 words)

	POLISH NEWS - Straight from POLAND - September 2001.
		The election of the LPR shows that a segment of the electorate feels a sovereign, Catholic Poland need not be run solely by ex-communists, liberals and Euro-enthusiasts.
		But the rule also was, that the right-wingers would usually lose elections to the leftists because the left wing would reap the effects of their predecessors' economic success and distribute its fruits.
		Although the election victory of the ex-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) in the September 23 elections appears to be a foregone conclusion, a recent poll showed that they may have to seek a coalition partner to create a cabinet.
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/straight/2001/hotnews65_1.shtml (5822 words)

	Polish Twins Offer Voters a One-Two Political Punch - New York Times
		Nonetheless, their prominence represents a remarkable turn in Polish politics, which, by an accident of timing, is producing a presidential election right after a parliamentary one.
		One result of the parliamentary voting is clear: the Polish electorate has repudiated the group of former Communist officials who, gathered under the umbrella of the Democratic Left Alliance, have dominated this country's politics for much of the past decade.
		The two parties that received the most votes in the parliamentary elections, Law and Justice and the Civic Platform, were formed in 2001 and have their roots in the pro-democracy protest movements of the 1980's.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/02/international/europe/02poland.html?ex=1285905600&en=1f599ac6481770e6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (1217 words)

	Warsaw Voice - In the Shadow of the Deficit
		Poland is less than two weeks away from the parliamentary elections and the voters appear to be holding steady.
		The 2001 parliamentary election campaign seems to be dominated by the budget gap and the resulting threat to state finances in the coming years, which explains the reluctance of parties running in the elections to disclose the financial aspects of their platforms to voters.
		In an official pastoral letter announced before the elections, the bishops wrote that their believers should not support parties which conduct activities "undermining the fundamental right to life." This involves the SLD's announcement to amend the country's restrictive anti-abortion law.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1754 (401 words)

	Freedom in the World 2000 - 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Polish citizens who are age 18 or older can change their government democratically under a system of universal and equal suffrage by secret ballot.
		The 1997 parliamentary election resulted in a change of government when the opposition AWS defeated the SLD.
		In May 2000, in anticipation of the October election, parliament amended the Presidential Elections Act to comply with the 1997 constitution.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2001/countryratings/poland2.htm (703 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Parliamentary Elections in the Spring?
		Since the Election Convention of the opposition Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) on June 11, it's been clear that the SLD plans to work in parliament in favor of early elections.
		There is no doubt that in the event of a Sejm vote on dissolving parliament, the SLD caucus would be unanimous on the issue as it has been calling for parliamentary elections in the spring for the past two years.
		With this date, the deadline for the registration of election committees is Aug. 14, and of individual candidates, Aug. 24.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1351 (618 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Republic of Belarus:Human Rights Developments
		In the run-up to parliamentary elections the government intensified its crackdown on the opposition, which struggled to remain unified in calling for a boycott.
		Zavadsky's nonappearance was widely attributed to the government's campaign to intimidate the media prior to the parliamentary elections.
		On September 22, the Election Commission released a list of the 574 candidates registered to run in the elections; most of the opposition candidates were refused registration.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k1/europe/belarus.html (960 words)

	NEVER AGAIN ASSOCIATION
		On the surface, at least, the results of the Polish parliamentary election on 23 September 2001 are clear enough: the Left secured a long expected victory with over 40 per cent of the vote, while the divided Right including radical nationalists lost heavily.
		The election campaign itself, however, demonstrates that the extreme right has made deep inroads into the mainstream of Polish politics and in the preelection rush to win as many allies as possible, there were mainstream political parties did not hesitate to strike deals with extremists.
		The nationalist-Catholic LPR includes the predominantly skinhead organisation All-Polish Youth (Mlodziez Wszechpolska, MW) and one of its leaders, Professor Ryszard Bender, achieved notoriety for his endorsement of Holocaust revisionism during a Radio Maria broadcast last year.
	free.ngo.pl /nw/english/articles/elections.html (779 words)

	(Some) international observers call elections free, democratic \| Pridnestrovie.net - Tiraspol, PMR: Pridnestrovskaia ...
		In the latest parliamentary election where 175 candidates competed for the full 43 seats in Parliament, voters could on average choose between four candidates for each seat.
		Also losing the election were a number of well known businessmen and corporate leaders, their seats taken by young minority candidates and in some cases women.
		During the last election it was almost impossible to get in, due to the record number of candidates, numerous international observers, election commission workers and foreign journalist who arrived on the scene and wanted to see Pridnestrovie's democracy in action first hand, up close and personal.
	pridnestrovie.net /observers.html (1797 words)

	Prospects for the Polish Economy in 1999-2000: SR, September 1999
		The PSL's poor showing in the 1997 parliamentary elections (losing two-thirds of its votes from the 1993 Parliamentary elections) cost the SLD its major coalition partner in the Sejm and the PSL's chair, former Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak, his party leadership position.
		It is not the size of Polish farms that is at stake, but rather an inability of Poland's ruling class to facilitate the farmers' access to markets.
		These developments reflect the poverty of the Polish population (those who sold them immediately were in desperate need of cash) and the pernicious results of the Soviet-controlled education which kept the bulk of the population unaware of the modes of operation of modern society and economy.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/999/hunter.html (2102 words)

	POLAND'S ELECTIONS: Brief Information About the Participants
		Polish Social Democrats (Socjaldemokracja Polska – SdPl) was founded in 2004, after the internal split in SLD.
		Elections platform of this party contains a standard set of slogans of the leftist camp (defense of workers' rights, support of socially weak groups of population, etc.).
		According to the Polish Constitution, 2 places in the Parliament are reserved for the representatives of the German community.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=396 (1313 words)

	POLAND: parliamentary elections Senat, 2001
		Elections were held for all the seats of the Senate on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		The official election results showed that the reformed communists had ousted the ruling Solidarity party from Parliament but would lack the requisite majority to govern on their own.
		The Central Election Commission announced that the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) - which is led by former communists but whose policies are close to West European centre-left parties - had won 41.04 percent of the vote, the most support won by any party since the Solidarity movement brought down communism in 1989.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2256_01.htm (393 words)

	Poland-election-sejm
		The Solidarity Election Action of the Right (AWSP) (5.6 percent) and the Freedom Union (UW) (3.1 percent) did not cross the required thresholds and did not win any seats in the new Sejm.
		Asked about his reaction to the election results in Poland, Verheugen said that it was a matter of the greatest importance for politicians in candidate countries to insure that discontent with an essential part of internal politics did not threaten support for EU membership and integration.
		After to-date talks with parliamentary groupings, the Democratic Left Alliance-Union of Labour (SLD-UP) coalition is considering two scenarios of government formation: either a minority or a coalition government.
	www.polonya.org.tr /elections-1.html (1644 words)

	Antisemitism And Racism
		In April 2001, President Kwasniewski vetoed legislation that would have provided for the restoration of private property to Polish citizens only – clearly discriminating against Jewish claimants, the great majority of whom are not domiciled in Poland and are not Polish citizens.
		The participation of President Aleksander Kwasniewski in the controversial ceremony commemorating the Jedwabne massacre in July 2001 was an important step in Polish acknowledgment of responsibility for the event, despite the Church hierarchy’s refusal to take part and its holding of a separate ceremony for the victims in a Warsaw church.
		In August 2001 an exhibition commemorating the murder of Sinti and Roma under Nazi occupation was opened on the grounds of Auschwitz concentration camp, where more than 20,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/poland.htm (2902 words)

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