DYSKUSYJNA RÓWNOŚĆ W WYBORACH DO ORGANÓW STANOWIĄCYCH JEDNOSTEK SAMORZĄDU TERYTORIALNEGO
DISCUSSION EQUALITY IN ELECTIONS OF GOVERNING BODIES LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS

Summary/Abstract: In this discussion I’d like to draw attention to one of the basic constitutional principles, i.e. the principle of equality which, in my opinion, is not observed in elections to legislative bodies of local government unit. As far as I am concerned the elections to district councils being the cities with district (poviat?) rights and district (poviat) councils and regional parliaments due to the method of counting the votes to seats do not meet the criterion of equality because there is the counting of the votes cast to constituencies and not to individual local government authorities. Striving after full respecting of the constitutional principle of citizens’ equality should, in my opinion, lead to necessary changes in the electoral system, that is, treating the whole local government unit as really one body to which there are elections and the change of distribution of seats between the eligible electoral committees according to the rules binding in the elections to the European Parliament

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