Wotum nieufności w PRL? Odpowiedzialność parlamentarna Rady Ministrów w okresie obowiązywania konstytucji z 22 lipca 1952 r.
Vote of no confidence in Polish People’s Republic? Parliamentary responsibility of the Council of Ministers under the constitution of July 22nd, 1952

Summary/Abstract: The article treats about the political responsibility of the Council of Ministers in Polish People’s Republic. Due to the constitution of July 22nd, 1952 the government was responsible to the Sejm. Changes of ministers could be done also by Council of the State, but only at the request of the prime minister. The vote of parliament had only formal importance, because the real personal decisions were made by the leaders of Th e Polish United Workers’ Party. Th e constitutional position of Sejm became stronger in the last years of PRL. Th e dismissal of Zbigniew Messner’s government took place as the result of the parliamentary opposition to this government, so it can be considered as the real vote of no confidence. The author describes also the constitutional custom, not based on the norms of the constitution, which ordered to the prime minister to declare the dismissal of his government aft er the parliamentary elections, during the first session of new-elected Sejm. Usually it didn’t mean important changes in the Council of Ministers, which was still led by the same person as the prime minister.

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