- Aleksander KWASNIEWSKI 53.9%, Andrzj
OLECHOWSKI 17.3%, Marian KRZAKLEWSKI 15.6%, Lech WALESA 1%

Legislative branch: bicameral National Assembly or Zgromadzenie
Narodowe consists of the Sejm (460 seats; members are elected under
a complex system of proportional representation to serve four-year
terms) and the Senate or Senat (100 seats; members are elected by a
majority vote on a provincial basis to serve four-year terms)

elections: Sejm elections last held 21 September 1997 (next to be
held by NA September 2001); Senate - last held 21 September 1997
(next to be held by NA September 2001)

election results: Sejm - percent of vote by party - AWS 33.8%, SLD
27.1%, UW 13.4%, PSL 7.3%, ROP 5.6%, MNSO 0.4%, other 12.4%; seats
by party - AWS 201, SLD 164, UW 60, PSL 27, ROP 6, MNSO 2; Senate -
percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - AWS 51, SLD 28, UW
8, ROP 5, PSL 3, independents 5; note - seats by party in the Sejm
as of February 2001: AWS 175, SLD 161, UW 49, PSL 26, PP 6, KdP 7,
ROP-PC 4, independents 31, one seat vacant

note: two seats are assigned to ethnic minority parties

Judicial branch: Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the
president on the recommendation of the National Council of the
Judiciary for an indefinite period); Constitutional Tribunal (judges
are chosen by the Sejm for nine-year terms)

Political parties and leaders: Coalition for Poland or KdP [first
name unknown GRABOWSKI]; Confederation for an Independent
Poland-Patriotic Camp or KPN-OP (KPN-Fatherland or KPN-O is a small
group within the KPN-OP) [Michal JANISZEWSKI]; Democratic Left
Alliance or SLD (Social Democracy of Poland) [Leszek MILLER];
Freedom Union or UW [Bronislaw GEREMEK]; German Minority of Lower
Silesia or MNSO [Henryk KROLL]; Movement for the Reconstruction of
Poland or ROP-PC [Jan OLSZEWSKI]; Polish Accord or PP [Jan
LOPUSZANSKI]; Polish Peasant Party or PSL [Jaroslaw KALINOWSKI];
Polish Socialist Party or PPS [Piotr IKONOWICZ]; Solidarity
Electoral Action or AWS (includes RS-AWS and Solidarity) [Marian
KRZAKLEWSKI]; Social Movement-Solidarity Electoral Action or RS-AWS
[Jerzy BUZEK]

Political pressure groups and leaders: All Poland Trade Union
Alliance or OPZZ (trade union); Roman Catholic Church; Solidarity
(trade union)

International organization participation: ACCT (observer), Australia
Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS, CCC, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD,
ECE, EU (applicant), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IC