Poland - WARSAW

Government and politics -

As the capital of Poland, Warsaw is the political center of the country. All state agencies are located there, including the Polish Parliament, the Presidential Office, and the Supreme Court. In the Polish parliament, the city and the area are represented by 31 MPs (out of 460). Additionally, Warsaw elects two MEPs (Members of the European Parliament).

The Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, is situated in Warsaw on Wiejska Street. The Sejm is composed of 460 members (in Polish deputowany or poseł). It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm (Marszałek Sejmu).

Municipal government -

The municipal government existed in Warsaw until World War II and was restored in 1990 (during the communist times, the National City Council – Miejska Rada Narodowa – governed in Warsaw). Since 1990, the system of city administration has been changed several times – also as the result of the reform which restored powiats, canceled in 1975. Finally, according to the Warsaw Act, the city is divided into 18 districts and forms one city powiat with a unified municipal government.

The basic unit of territorial division in Poland is a commune (gmina). A city is also a commune – but with a city charter. Both cities and communes are governed by a mayor – but in the communes, the mayor is Vogt (wójt in Polish), however in the cities – burmistrz. Some bigger cities obtain the entitlements, i.e. tasks and privileges, which are possessed by the units of the second level of the territorial division – counties (powiaty in Polish). An example of such entitlement is a car registration: a gmina cannot register cars, this is a powiat's task (i.e. a registration number depends on what powiat a car had been registered in, not the gmina). In this case, we say "city-county" or powiat grodzki. Such cities are for example Lublin, Kraków, Gdańsk, and Poznań. In Warsaw, its districts additionally have some of a powiat's entitlements – like the already mentioned car registration. For example, the Wola district has its own evidence, and the Ursynów district – it's own (and the cars from Wola have another type of registration number than those from Ursynów). But for instance, the districts in Kraków do not have the entitlements of a powiat, so the registration numbers in Kraków are of the same type for all districts.

Warsaw 2020: Best of Warsaw, Poland Tourism - (Tripadvisor - https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Tourism-g274856-Warsaw_Mazovia_Province_Central_Poland-Vacations.html)

01. ''Say You Would'' - Dayon - https://www.epidemicsound.com/artists/dayon/
02. ''Move to the Rhythm'' - spring gang - https://www.epidemicsound.com/artists/spring-gang/
03. ''Just like in the Movies'' - Particle House (Feat. Le June) - https://www.epidemicsound.com/artists/particle-house/

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