THE CEREMONY OF HANDING OVER THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT -IN-EXILE TO LECH WAŁĘSA – THE LAST ACT OF THE STATE CEREMONIAL OF III RP Cover Image

UROCZYSTOŚĆ PRZEKAZANIA URZĘDU PREZYDENTA RP NA UCHODŹSTWIE LECHOWI WAŁĘSIE – OSTATNI AKT CEREMONIAŁU PAŃSTWOWEGO III RP
THE CEREMONY OF HANDING OVER THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT -IN-EXILE TO LECH WAŁĘSA – THE LAST ACT OF THE STATE CEREMONIAL OF III RP

Author(s): Paweł Gotowiecki
Subject(s): Political history, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu i Przedsiębiorczości w Ostrowcu Świętokrzyskim
Keywords: emigration; legalism; transfer of insignia; state ceremonial; Ryszard Kaczorowski;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to selected aspects of the ceremony of handing over the presidential insignia by the President of the Republic of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski to President-elect Lech Wałęsa on December 22, 1990. The author focuses on formal, legal and protocol issues accompanying the ceremony of handing over the insignia. The process of negotiating the formula of an event unprecedented in the political history of Poland or in the history of state ceremonies was analyzed in detail.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 130-145
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish