Kadencja parlamentu we współczesnych systemach konstytucyjnych

Abstract

The study presents the issue of the Parliamentary term as the time of its authority granted during elections. It provides the comparison of different legal solutions concerning that matter, particularly focusing on constitutional regulations legally binding in particular countries. The author analyses the duration of a parliamentary term, the rules for the calculation of the beginning and ending of the term of office as well as the possibilities of its shortening or prolonging. He also depicts various rules of counting the term of both houses of two–house parliaments. Moreover, different issues concerning the term of the Polish parliament were taken into account, with the focus on the corresponding effective legal provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997.