https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2021.21.2.11
The right to petition was introduced in the Polish legal order in the March Constitution of 1921. Te provision was omitted in later constitutions and only reappeared in the 1997 Constitution. For many years, the right to petition was imprecise and often confused with complaints and requests. Tis article examines the petitions submitted during the 8th term of Sejm (2015-2019), which was the first in which citizens could exercise their full right, pursuant to the act on petitions adopted on 11 July 2014. I looked at 605 petitions, taking into account the criteria of how the matter was settled, the subject of the petition, and the time that passed before Sejm considered it. A single (four-year) term of Sejm is not enough to give a definitive answer to how often Polish citizens will be likely to resort to this measure in the future, and what its effectiveness will be. Te current term of Sejm started in 2019, so the opportunity for a comparison will not arise until about midterm (i.e. around 2022). The limited size of my article has forced me to address only the most important issues involved in the interpretation of the Polish act on petitions and the way the 2015-2019 Sejm handled citizens’ petitions.
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