The Łódź Voivodeship Sejmik ( pl, Sejmik Województwa Łódzkiego) is the
regional legislature of the
voivodeship
A voivodeship is the area administered by a voivode (Governor) in several countries of central and eastern Europe. Voivodeships have existed since medieval times and the area of extent of voivodeship resembles that of a duchy in western medieval ...
of
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...
. It is a
unicameral
Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one.
Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multi ...
body consists of thirty-three councillors elected in free elections for a five-year term. The current chairperson of the assembly is Małgorzata Grabarczyk.
The assembly elects the
executive board
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organi ...
that acts as the collective executive for the regional government, headed by the province's
marshal. The current executive board is a coalition government between
Civic Coalition,
Third Way
The Third Way is a centrist political position that attempts to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of centre-right economic policies with centre-left social policies. The Third Way was born f ...
and
The Left, headed by Marshal
Joanna Skrzydlewska
Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska (born 17 February 1977 in Łódź) is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 11,822 votes in 9 Łódź district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
She is a member of ...
The Regional Assembly meets in the Marshal's Office in
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...
City.
Districts
Members of the Assembly are elected from five districts, serve five-year terms. Districts does not have the constituencies formal names. Instead, each constituency has a number and territorial description.
See also
*
Polish Regional Assembly
*
Łódź Voivodeship
Łódź Voivodeship (also known as Lodz Province, or by its Polish language, Polish name ''Województwo łódzkie'' ) is a province-Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Łódź ...
Charts
File:Sejmik Województwa Łódzkiego I kadencji.svg, 1998
File:Sejmik_Województwa_Łódzkiego_2006.svg, 2006
File:Sejmik_Województwa_Łódzkiego_2010.svg, 2010
File:Sejmik_Województwa_Łódzkiego_2014.svg, 2014
File:Poland Lodz Regional Assembly 2018.svg, 2018
External links
* (pl
Łódź Regional Assembly
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Voivodeship assemblies in Poland
Assembly
Assembly may refer to:
Organisations and meetings
* Deliberative assembly, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions
* General assembly, an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their representa ...
Unicameral legislatures