The West Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik () is the
regional legislature of the
Voivodeship
A voivodeship ( ) or voivodate 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 ...
of
West Pomerania in
Poland
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. It is a
unicameral
Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, making up nearly ...
parliamentary body consisting of thirty councillors chosen during regional elections for a five-year term. The current chairperson of the assembly is
Teresa Kalina from
KO.
The assembly elects the
executive board that acts as the collective executive for the provincial government, headed by the
voivodeship marshal
A voivodeship marshal (, ) is the head of the provincial-level government for each of the sixteen voivodeships of Poland. Elected by councillors from the provincial assembly, the marshal is the head of the collective voivodeship executive board, ...
. The current Executive Board of Pomerania is a coalition government between
Civic Coalition,
Third Way
The Third Way is a predominantly centrist political position that attempts to reconcile centre-right and centre-left politics by advocating a varying synthesis of Right-wing economics, right-wing economic and Left-wing politics, left-wing so ...
and
The Left under the leadership of Marshal
Olgierd Geblewicz of
Civic Coalition.
The assembly convenes within the Sejmik Building in
Szczecin
Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...
.
Districts
Members of the legislature are elected from five districts and serve five-year terms. Districts does not have the constituencies' formal names. Instead, each constituency has a number and territorial description.
See also
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Polish Regional Assembly
*
West Pomeranian Voivodeship
West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland. Its capital and largest city is Szczecin. Its area equals , and in 2021, it was inhabited by 1,682,003 people.
It was established on 1 Janua ...
References
External links
Official websiteExecutive board official website
{{Regional assemblies in Poland
West Pomeranian
Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (; ), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania, located mostly in north-eastern Germany, with a small portion in no ...
Assembly
Unicameral legislatures