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Poland GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE
The three years following the Round Table Agreement of
1989
were a period of dramatic but uneven change in the
governmental
structure of the Republic of Poland. The Round Table
Agreement
itself moved Poland decisively away from a Soviet-style
unitary
hierarchy in which the formal government was merely a
bureaucracy
to implement decisions made by the extraconstitutional
organs of
the PZPR. The Round Table Agreement created a tripartite
structure in which power was distributed among the
executive,
legislative, and judicial branches. By mid-1992, the
Polish
government had evolved into a presidential and
parliamentary
democracy with an increasingly independent judiciary. The
adoption of the Little Constitution promised to resolve
ambiguities in the executive powers of the president and
the
prime minister and to clarify the scope of control of the
bicameral National Assembly
(see Constitutional Revisions after April 1989
, this ch.).
Data as of October 1992
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