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- Contract_Sejm abstract "Contract Sejm (Polish: Sejm kontraktowy) is a term commonly applied to the \"Sejm\" (parliament) elected in the Polish parliamentary elections of 1989. The contract refers to an agreement reached by the Polish United Workers' Party and the Solidarity (Solidarność in Polish) movement during the Polish Round Table Agreement. The final agreement was signed on April 5, 1989. As a result, real political power was vested in a newly created bicameral legislature and in a president who would be the chief executive. Solidarność became a legitimate and legal political party.Perhaps the most important decision reached during the talks was to allow for partially free elections to be held in Poland. All seats to the newly created Senate of Poland were to be elected democratically, as were 161 seats (35 percent of the total) in Sejm. The remaining 65% of the seats were reserved for the Communist Party and its satellite parties. In addition, all 35 seats elected via the country-wide list were reserved for the Party's candidates provided they gained a certain quota of support. This was to ensure that the most notable leaders of the Party were elected.The outcome of the election was largely unpredictable. After all, Poland had not had a truly fair election since the 1920s, so there was little precedent to go by. It was clear that the Communists were unpopular, but there were no hard numbers as to how low support for them would actually fall. The Communist government still had control over most major media outlets and employed sports and television celebrities for candidates, as well as successful local personalities and businesspeople. Some members of the opposition were worried that such tactics would gain enough votes from the less educated segment of the population to give the Communists the legitimacy that they craved.The election of June 4, 1989 (and the second round of June 18) brought a landslide victory to Solidarność: 99% of all the seats in the Senate and all of the possible seats in the Sejm. Out of 100 seats in the Senate, 99 were won by Solidarity and 1 by an independent candidate. Out of 35 seats of the country-wide list, only one was gained by the Party candidate (Adam Zieliński) and one by a United People's Party satellite party candidate, while the remainder were taken by the Solidarity in the second run. Altogether, out of 161 seats eligible, Solidarity took 160.The turnout was surprisingly low: only 62.7% in the first round and 25% in the second. The outcome was a major surprise to both the Party and Solidarity. Only a few days before June 4 the party Central Committee was discussing the possible reaction of the Western world should Solidarity not win a single seat. At the same time the Solidarity leaders were trying to prepare some set of rules for the non-party MPs in a Communist-dominated parliament, as it was expected that the Solidarity would win not more than 20 seats.Although the elections were not entirely democratic, they paved the way for creation of Tadeusz Mazowiecki's cabinet and a peaceful transition to democracy, which was confirmed after the Polish parliamentary elections of 1991.The Contract Sejm's opening session took place on 5 July 1989".
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- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Adam_Zieliński.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Bicameralism.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Category:1989_in_Poland.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Poland_(1989–present).
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Category:Political_history_of_Poland.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sejm.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Category:Solidarity_(Polish_union_movement).
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Maria_Curie-Skłodowska_University.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink One-party_state.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Opole_University.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Polish_Round_Table_Agreement.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Polish_United_Workers_Party.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Polish_legislative_election,_1989.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Polish_parliamentary_election,_1991.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink President_of_Poland.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Sejm.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union).
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink Tadeusz_Mazowiecki.
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLink United_Peoples_Party_(Poland).
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "Contract ''Sejm''".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "Contract Sejm".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "Contract elections".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "Contract".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "National Assembly".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "election of June 4, 1989".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "first partially free elections".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "free elections in Eastern Bloc".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "parliamentary election".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "partially free and democratic parliamentary elections".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "partly free elections".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "peacefully ceded power".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "semi-free elections in Poland".
- Contract_Sejm wikiPageWikiLinkText "semi-free elections".
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- Contract_Sejm subject Category:1989_in_Poland.
- Contract_Sejm subject Category:History_of_Poland_(1989–present).
- Contract_Sejm subject Category:Political_history_of_Poland.
- Contract_Sejm subject Category:Sejm.
- Contract_Sejm subject Category:Solidarity_(Polish_union_movement).
- Contract_Sejm hypernym Term.
- Contract_Sejm comment "Contract Sejm (Polish: Sejm kontraktowy) is a term commonly applied to the \"Sejm\" (parliament) elected in the Polish parliamentary elections of 1989. The contract refers to an agreement reached by the Polish United Workers' Party and the Solidarity (Solidarność in Polish) movement during the Polish Round Table Agreement. The final agreement was signed on April 5, 1989.".
- Contract_Sejm label "Contract Sejm".
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