Poland is a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic in Central Europe. The President serves as head of state while the Prime Minister heads the government, and the bicameral Parliament of Poland, comprising the Sejm and the Senate, holds legislative power. Poland is governed under its constitution, in force since 17 October 1997.
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Disclosed lower-confidence call: this 1791 constitution was adopted for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the historical predecessor state; the live political-atlas country entity is the modern Poland row, per this atlas own convention of filing historical polities under their live modern country rather than a separate entity.
Source Constitution of 3 May 1791 (Wikipedia)
Constitution of Poland, adopted 1997, the current constitutional order of Poland.
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Source Donald Tusk (Wikipedia)
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1. Freedom House: Poland (Freedom in the World 2025)
Freedom HouseOverview, Global Freedom Score 82/100 (free)Quote, Overview, Global Freedom Score 82/100 (free)
Poland's democratic institutions took root at the start of its transition from communist rule in 1989.
2. Politics of Poland (Wikipedia)
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The politics of Poland takes the form of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic
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17 October 1997 (constitution went into force)
View the Source Donald Tusk (Wikipedia)
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has served as Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014 and again since 2023
Karol Nawrocki (Wikipedia)
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is Poland's seventh president, having taken office on 6 August 2025
Constitution of 3 May 1791 (Wikipedia)
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The Constitution of 3 May 1791, titled the Government Act, was a written constitution for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was adopted by the Great Sejm that met between 1788 and 1792.
Poland (Wikipedia)
Practices: Unitary State, Infobox: government_type
Unitary parliamentary republic
Practices: Parliamentary Democracy, Infobox: government_type
Unitary parliamentary republic
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