Presidential election in Poland 1926 (June 1)

The fourth presidential election in Poland took place on June 1, 1926 in Warsaw . The National Assembly has Ignacy Moscicki the third Poland President of the Republic elected.

background

After the National Assembly elected Marshal Józef Piłsudski as president on May 31, 1926, in the shadow of the May coup (May 12-15 , 1926) , he did not accept the election. The Sejm Marshal Maciej Rataj adjourned the meeting to the following day (Tuesday, June 1, 1926). Thus, the National Assembly, which elected Gabriel Narutowicz on December 9, 1922 and Stanisław Wojciechowski on December 20, 1922 , was to designate a head of state for the fourth time.

Piłsudski's next colleague, who obviously did not know anything about his election rejection plans in advance, turned to him on the evening of May 31 with a request to name a preferred candidate. However, the names he mentioned (including Artur Śliwiński and Zdzisław Lubomirski ) did not appeal to his advisors. Finally, an agreement was reached on Professor Ignacy Mościcki , a former colleague of the incumbent Prime Minister Kazimierz Bartel from the Technical University of Lviv , whom Piłsudski had met in 1896 during his time in the socialist movement. After that, however, Mościcki was hardly politically active until 1926 and was not known to the public.

The vote

Candidates

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  Adolf Bniński

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  Ignacy Mościcki

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  Zygmunt Marek

The following candidates were proposed for election in the National Assembly:

• Adolf Bninski - border grater seater, economist, Voivod of Posen (since 1923), a monarchist
• Ignacy Mościcki - chemist, professor at Warsaw University of Technology , manager of the calcium cyanamide plant in Chorzów
• Zygmunt Marek - lawyer, member of the Sejm since 1919, former member of the Austrian State Council (1911–1918), socialist ( Polish Socialist Party )

The vote

Under the chairmanship of the Sejm Marshal Maciej Rataj, the secret ballot took place at the fifth session of the National Assembly.

Warsaw, June 1, 1926

Ballot	candidate	Number of votes	%	Supporting parties
1st ballot	Adolf Bniński	211	38.72%	nationalist parties
	Zygmunt Marek	56	10.26%	PPS
	Ignacy Mościcki	215	39.45%	moderate left and centrist parties
	Invalid votes	63	11.55%
2nd ballot	Adolf Bniński	200	36.70%	nationalist parties
	Ignacy Mościcki	281	51.56%	left and centrist parties
	Invalid votes	69	12.66%
Ignacy Mościcki was thus elected.

After the election

Mościcki was sworn in on June 4th in the Warsaw Royal Castle for a seven-year term. So far, the presidents have been sworn in on the premises of the Sejm, where the National Assembly met, and they have used the relatively modest Belvedere Palace as their official residence. The change of the place of action is seen as a further humiliation of the parliament by Piłsudski, since now the deputies had to go to the president and not the president should stand before the national assembly.

Although President Mościcki was granted expanded privileges with the constitutional amendment in August 1926, he gained little political influence and acted as a puppet of Piłsudski and the military. On May 8, 1933, he was re-elected for the second term of office by the autocratic National Assembly without dissenting votes .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Protokół przekazania władzy przez Marszałka Sejmu Macieja Rataja Prezydentowi Rzeczypospolitej Ignacemu Mościckiemu. In: Dziennik Ustaw, sejm.gov.pl. June 4, 1926, Retrieved December 9, 2012 .  

literature

• Andrzej Chojnowski: Ignacy Mościcki, prezydent Rzeczypospolitej 1 VI 1926-30 IX 1939 . In: Andrzej Chojnowski, Piotr Wróbel (Ed.): Prezydenci i premierzy Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej . Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo, Breslau, Warsaw, Krakow 1992, ISBN 83-04-03854-4 , p. 213-215 .