Voivodeship Day
As Woiwodschaftstag ( pl. Sejmik Wojewódzki ) regional parliaments are provinces in Poland called.
The parliament is composed of members elected for a term of four years in each of the 16 Polish voivodships. The number of members of a voivodeship assembly varies from voivodeship to voivodeship depending on the size of the population. In voivodeships with a smaller population they consist of 30, in the heavily populated Masovian Voivodeship of 51 members.
The members of the Voivodship Day elect a chairman and a deputy chairman from among their number, neither of which may be part of the voivodship executive committee (pl. Zarząd województwa ). The chairman is responsible for organizing the affairs of Voivodeship Day and for leading debates.
The Voivodeship Day can adopt statutes that affect the Voivodeship, provided that these do not fall within the remit of the centrally determined voivod. This can be the budget of the voivodeship, development strategies and rules for managing the voivodeship property. He can also elect the voivodship marshal (pl. Marszałek województwa ), who chairs the also elected executive committee.
The word Sejmik itself is a diminutive form of the word Sejm , which was the historical Polish Reichstag and today is one of the chambers of the Polish Parliament alongside the Senate . For further historical uses of the term, see Sejmik.