There have been several
referendums
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in the history of
Poland
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.
1920 and 1921
There were no country-wide referendums in the
Second Polish Republic, but there were two local referendums on border issues between Poland and Germany:
* 11 July 1920 –
Referendum
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on
Warmia
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,
Mazury
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and
* 20 March 1921 –
Referendum
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on
Upper Silesia
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1946 and 1987
There were two referendums in the
People's Republic of Poland:
* 30 June 1946 –
People's referendum (also known as the ''3xTAK'', ''3 times YES'' referendum)
* 29 November 1987 –
Referendum on political and economic reforms
Since 1989
There have been four referendums in post-Communist Poland:
* 18 February 1996: two referendums:
**
Referendum on enfranchisement of citizens (''Referendum w sprawie powszechnego uwłaszczenia obywateli'')
**
Referendum with four questions on privatised assets (''Referendum o niektórych kierunkach wykorzystania majątku państwowego'')
* 25 May 1997 –
Referendum on the Constitution (''Referendum konstytucyjne'')
* 7–8 June 2003 –
Referendum on joining the EU (''Referendum akcesyjne'' or ''Referendum europejskie'')
* 6 September 2015 –
Referendum with three questions on Sejm representation, political party funding, and tax law dispute resolution:
** Introducing
single-member constituencies
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for
Sejm
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The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ...
elections, on maintaining state financing of political parties and introducing a presumption in favour of the taxpayer in disputes over the tax law.
A
referendum on the proposed EU Constitution was planned in 2005, but was abandoned after the
rejection of the Constitution by French voters.
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