Monika Wielichowska, PO Dorota Niedziela, PO Piotr Zgorzelski, PSL Włodzimierz Czarzasty, NL Krzysztof Bosak, RN since 13 November 2023
Senior Marshal
Marek Sawicki, PSL since 13 November 2023
Prime Minister
Donald Tusk, PO since 13 December 2023
Leader of the Opposition[a]
Jarosław Kaczyński, PiS since 13 December 2023
Structure
Seats
459 deputies (230 majority)
Political groups
Government (240)
KO (157)[b]
PL2050 – TD (32)
PSL (KP) – TD (32)[c]
The Left (19)[d]
Confidence and supply (8)
The Left (7)[e]
Independent (1)[f]
Opposition (211)
ZP (189)[g]
KWiN (18)[h]
K'15 (3)
Independent (1)[i]
Vacant (1)
Vacant (1)[j]
Committees
29
Administration and Internal Affairs
Agriculture and Rural Development
Constitutional Accountability
Culture and Media
Deputies' Ethics
Digitization, Innovation and Modern Technology
Economy and Development
Education, Science and Youth
Energy, Climate and State Assets
Environment Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry
European Union Affairs
Family and Women Rights
Foreign Affairs
Health
Infrastructure
Justice and Human Rights
Legislative
Liaison with Poles Abroad
Local Self-Government and Regional Policy
Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation
National and Ethnic Minorities
National Defense
Physic Education and Sport
Public Finances
Rules and Deputies' Affairs
Senior Policy
Social Policy and Family
Special Services
State Control
Elections
Voting system
Open-list proportional representation in 41 constituencies (5% national election thresholda)
Last election
15 October 2023
Next election
On or before 11 November 2027
Meeting place
The Sejm and Senate Complex, Warsaw
Website
sejm.gov.pl
Footnotes
a 8% for coalitions, 0% for ethnic minority electoral committees
The Sejm (English: /seɪm/, Polish:[sɛjm]ⓘ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland.
The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the transition of government in 1989. Along with the upper house of parliament, the Senate, it forms the national legislature in Poland known as National Assembly (Polish: Zgromadzenie Narodowe). The Sejm is composed of 460 deputies (singular deputowany or poseł – "envoy") elected every four years by a universal ballot. The Sejm is presided over by a speaker called the "Marshal of the Sejm" (Marszałek Sejmu).
In the Kingdom of Poland, the term Sejm referred to an entire two-chamber parliament, comprising the Chamber of Deputies (Izba Poselska), 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 elective monarchy. Since the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939), Sejm has referred only to the lower house of parliament.
During the existence of the Polish People's Republic, the Sejm, then a unicameral parliament, was the supreme organ of state power in the country. It was the only government branch in the state, and per the principle of unified power, all state organs were subservient to it. However, in practice it was widely considered to be a rubber stamp legislature which existed to approve decisions made by the ruling party, the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) as a formality, and which had little to no real power of its own.
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