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Greater Poland Regional Assembly

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Type
  
Unicameral

Seats
  
39 councillors

Chairperson
  
Zofia Szalczyk, PSL

Last election
  
16 November 2014

Greater Poland Regional Assembly

Vice-Chairpersons
  
Zofia Itman, PiS Mirosława Rutkowska-Krupka, PO Waldemar Witkowski, SLD

Political groups
  
Executive board      PO (14)      PSL (12) Opposition parties      PiS (8)      SLD (3)      Independents (2)

The Greater Poland Regional Assembly (Polish: Sejmik Województwa Wielkopolskiego) is the regional legislature of the Voivodeship of Greater Poland. It is a unicameral parliamentary body consisting of thirty-nine councillors elected to a four-year term. The current chairperson of the assembly is Zofia Szalczyk.

The assembly elects the executive board that acts as the collective executive for the regional government, headed by the province's marshal. The current Executive Board of Greater Poland is a coalition government between Civic Platform and the Polish People's Party, with Marek Woźniak of Civic Platform presiding as marshal.

The assembly meets in the Marshal's Office in Poznań.

Districts

Members of the Assembly are elected from six districts, serve four-year terms. Districts does not have the constituencies formal names. Instead, each constituency has a number, territorial description.

References

Greater Poland Regional Assembly Wikipedia