Koncepcje reformy systemu wyborczego do Sejmu i Senatu w świetle rozważań ustrojowych obozu sanacyjnego (marzec – wrzesień 1928 r.)
The Concepts of Reforms of Elections to the Sejm and the Senate in the Light of Political Debate within the Sanacja Camp (March–September 1928)

Summary/Abstract: The debate on rationality of the March Constitution 1921 was an important component of publicdebate conducted in Poland in the second half of the 1990s. Pilsudski’s supporters considered itssystemic solutions as a basic factor of the institutional crisis faced by Poland. Hence, any politicalactivities the Non-Party Bloc for Cooperation with the Government (BBWR), including campaignfor elections to the Sejm and Senate of the second term of offi ce were conducted under the sloganof the revision of the basic law. The fi rst initiative in this regard was taken by the Sanacja in May1928 when Walery Sławek wrote out a survey, the purpose of which was to exchange views withinthe ruling bloc on basic constitutional issues. Two months later a conference took place for conclusivedeliberations. The participants expressed their belief in the need to amend the provisions ofthe Constitution, including the mechanisms of creation of the Sejm and the Senate. However, eachof the groups forming BBWR approached to these issues according to their own, often mutuallyexclusive, concepts. Efforts by Pilsudski’s supporters in early autumn 1928, also did not lead toa coherent proposal for the revision of the constitution. Divergent results of the constitutional consultationtherefore proved that the leadership of BBWR in this period did not have a crystallizedvision of the changes in the constitution. It could only indicate their preferred direction for transformationof the legal system.

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