Contract Sejm
계약 세임
The parliament of the Polish People's Republic (10th-term Sejm and Senate) constituted under the 1989 Polish Round Table Agreement, which contractually allocated 65% of lower-house seats to the communist party and its allies and 35% to freely contested races. Solidarity won a landslide victory in every seat it was allowed to contest, including 99 of 100 Senate seats, producing an unexpected political realignment that enabled Tadeusz Mazowiecki's non-communist government and Poland's peaceful transition from communist rule. It dissolved before the fully free parliamentary elections of 1991.
Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) foundational article: 65:35 seat allocation, Round Table origin, election results, and Solidarity landslide
- enrs.eu confirms term "contract Sejm" / "contractual elections" and the 65:35 split as product of the Round Table Agreement
- tvpworld.com independent confirmation of agreement mechanics, Solidarity winning 99/100 Senate seats and all 161 contested Sejm seats
- pl.wikipedia.org Polish-language article confirming native term "Sejm kontraktowy," dissolution in October 1991