Scared of brown polls, I'm looking for tickets. I found 11.
The Constitution of the Republic of Poland, Article 96(2), clearly states:
"The elections to the Sejm are common, equal, direct and PROPORTIONAL“
This proportionality changes - people migrate Her method side deals with State Election Commission, which, on the basis of the number of inhabitants, calculates the alleged typical standard: how many citizens are assigned to a single parliamentary mandate.
In 2022, PKW calculated: 36,075 160 inhabitants ÷ 460 MPs = 78,424 inhabitants per mandate.
According to PKW calculations pproportionality required a shift of mandates between districts – any of them had to be deducted from the depopulated regions (mainly east and south) and added where the population was arriving (large cities and neighbourhoods of Warsaw).
PKW proposed changes in 22 districts. Balance?
–11 mandates in any regions, +11 in others.
Total difference 11 mandates – precisely as in the title.
They would gain large centres: Warsaw (I and II), Wrocław, Kraków, Gdańsk, Poznań.
This is simply a natural demographic phenomenon that would usually require the Sejm's decision to correct the annex to the Electoral Code. PKW cannot do this alone – it can only propose.
But the Sejm – then dominated by the Law and Justice – did not accept the PKW proposal. The 2022 letter was simply silenced.
Because all change of mandate besides changes the weight of the vote. And in a proportional system, with the same number of votes, 1 more mandate in Warsaw or Poznań would mean that large cities – where PiS loses notoriously – would get more representatives.
disproportionately, although formally, according to the law.
PKW chairman, justice Sylwester Marciniak, did his job.
But the Sejm—though he should—did not have to.
And he didn't.
I wonder what the flow will be 3 months before the 2027 elections?
PS
Here are proposals to change the number of seats in selected districts in order to keep the proportionality of elections in Poland:
1Legnica1211–1
2Whale87–1
3Wrocław1415+1
5Toruń1312–1
6Lublin1514–1
7Chelm1211–1
9Boat109–1
13Kraków II1415+1
19Warsaw I2021+1
20Warsaw II1214+2
23Rzeszów1516+1
25Gdansk1213+1
26Słupsk1415+1
31Katowice I1211–1
32Katowice II98–1
33Kielce1615–1
34Elbląg87–1
37Horse910+1
38Saw910+1
39Poznań1011+1
