Today at 12 noon, the ceremony of handing over election certificates to the 11th term senator began in the Senate. The new senators included: former Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak, former Ombudsman Adam Bodnar and current-term Left MP Magdalena Biejat.
The ceremony will be hosted by the chairman of the National Electoral Commission, Sylwester Marciniak.
The newly elected senators will take up their mandates at the first meeting of the Senate of the eleventh term, convened by the president.
The new senators included: former Prime Minister and former chairman of PSL Waldemar Pawlak. Former Ombudsman Adam Bodnar will also sit on the Senate benches.
The new term of the Senate will also include a group of current parliamentarians: one of the leaders of the New Left, Magdalena Biejat, former head of the PO Grzegorz Schetyna, deputy chairman of the Sejm Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Rafał Grupiński, Tomasz Lenz, Małgorzata Sekuła-Szmajdzińska.
The debutant in the Senate includes chairman of the trade union Waldemar Witkowski, Ryszard Franciszek Brejza – father of the senator of the expiring term Krzysztof Brejza and former commander of the armed forces Mirosław Różański, as well as Maciej Żywno, Anna Górska, current Marshal of the Warmia – Masurian Voivodeship Marek Brzezin and former starosta of Przasnysz Krzysztof Bieńkowski.
In the Senate elections, PiS candidates won 34 seats; KO-41; Third Way – 11, and New Left – 9 seats. There will also be five senators in the Senate who will lead from their own committees.
The power of a mandate
The high turnout gives the country the strongest representative mandate in the entire period of the Third Polish Republic
– said the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission, Sylwester Marciniak, while addressing the newly elected senators during the election certificate awarding ceremony.
During the ceremony, Sylwester Marciniak highlighted the record turnout in this year’s elections.
These elections were historic because they broke a record turnout in the history of the Third Polish Republic; 21 million 944 thousand people took part in the elections (for the Senate). 884 Polish women and men, so the turnout in the elections was 74.31%.
– reminded the head of the National Electoral Commission.
By comparison, he added, turnout in the 2015 election was 50.91%.
That is almost 6 million 400 thousand. This year more voters participated in the elections. It’s like every senator currently receives an average of almost 64,000. more votes
– he emphasized.
According to Marciniak, the turnout gives an indication of the level of public involvement in the life of the state.
This is an extremely important indicator for the development of democracy and the legitimacy of power. For the state this is a great honor, but also a great responsibility. This high turnout gives the state an extremely strong representative mandate, one could say the strongest in the entire period of the Third Polish Republic.
– the head of the National Electoral Commission asked the senators.
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Source: wPolityce