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Poland was the last Central European country to hold a free parliamentary election after the fall of communist governments. This was due to the evolutionary nature of the changes in the political system initiated by the Round Table talks and then to the policy pursued by the government headed by Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who decided to hold democratic local government elections in the first place (May 1990). And later, the elite of the “Solidarity” movement, embroiled in an increasingly fierce political dispute, decided to call a general presidential election. Its winner, Lech Wałęsa, engaged in a months-long dispute with the majority of the Contract Sejm over the structure of the electoral law. It all led to the free parliamentary election taking place as late ...