What is Politics of Poland?
The [[history of Poland]] is complex, and its political history is complicated by the changes in the boundaries and the population of the country. Since the end of communism many [[:Category:Political parties in Poland|political parties]] developed. The [[Polish United Workers' Party]] which had ruled the [[Polish People's Republic]] as a [[one-party state]] from 1948 to 1989 ceased to exist in 1990. The first election for [[President of the Republic of Poland|president]] was held in 1990. [[Lech Wałęsa]] was elected. He beat Stanislaw Tyminski with 74% of the vote. [[Aleksander Kwasniewski]], who had been in the [[Polish United Workers' Party]] was elected president in 1995 and 2000. He set up the [[Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)|Democratic Left Alliance]]. In 1991 there were open elections for the [[Sejm|Seym]]. 111 political parties contested the elections. 29 of them got enough votes to get seats, but it was not possible to form a stable government and new elections were held in 1991. The rules were changed so that only parties that got at least 5% of the votes got seats. About a third of the votes went to [[Right-wing politics|right wing]] parties, but there were so many of them that they didnt get many people elected. The [[Left-wing politics|left wing]] parties had combined and got 46% of the members. In 1997 the conservative party [[Solidarity Electoral Action]] got 34% of the votes and 44% of the members.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Poland in the Modern World|last=Porter-Szucs|first=Brian|publisher=Wiley Blackwell|year=2014|isbn=9781444332183|location=Chichester|pages=348-362}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Politics of Poland| ]]