Poland

Population Statistics

38,562,189

Total Population

5,784,328

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

25 September 2012

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Election Code (2011)

Updated: June 2015

Article 156, section 3 states:

The premises intended for seats of electoral bodies should be easily accessible for the disabled.

 

Article 166, section 10 states:

In the event of temporary inability to perform duties by an election commissioner, the National Electoral Commission shall be entitled to entrust performance of these functions, for this period, to another election commissioner or another person who shall ensure the sound performance of election activities.

 

Excerpts from the Election Code (2011)

Constitution on the Republic of Poland (1997, last amended 2009)

Updated: June 2015

Article 99 states:

Every citizen having the right to vote, who, no later than on the day of the elections, has attained the age of 21 years, shall be eligible to be elected to the Sejm. Every citizen having the right to vote, who, no later than on the day of the elections, has attained the age of 30 years, shall be eligible to be elected to the Senate.

 

Article 131 states:

If the President of the Republic is temporarily unable to discharge the duties of his office, he shall communicate this fact to the Marshal of the Sejm, who shall temporarily assume the duties of the President of the Republic. If the President of the Republic is not in a position to inform the Marshal of the Sejm of his incapacity to discharge the duties of the office, then the Constitutional Tribunal shall, on request of the Marshal of the Sejm, determine whether or not there exists an impediment to the exercise of the office by the President of the Republic. If the Constitutional Tribunal so finds, it shall require the Marshal of the Sejm to temporarily perform the duties of the President of the Republic. The Marshal of the Sejm shall, until the time of election of a new President of the Republic, temporarily discharge the duties of the President of the Republic in the following instances: …

(4) a declaration by the National Assembly of the President's permanent incapacity to exercise his duties due to the state of his health; such declaration shall require a resolution adopted by a majority vote of at least two-thirds of the statutory number of members of the National Assembly…

(6) If the Marshal of the Sejm is unable to discharge the duties of the President of the Republic, such duties shall be discharged by the Marshal of the Senate…

 

Article 180 states:

… A judge may be retired as a result of illness or infirmity which prevents him discharging the duties of his office. The procedure for doing so, as well as for appealing against such decision, shall be specified by statute…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Poland (1997, last amended 2009)