Abstract:
Membership Poland in European Union, results of earlier reforms and political context decided about successive changes in local government electoral law. Since 2004 to 2006 Polish parliament made eleven modifications this law. These changes concerned on: electoral rights, electoral commissions, election committees, financing of the election campaign and submission of lists of candidates. This paper analyses political consequences of these reforms. Author wants to prove that some of these changes had a political reasons, especially linked lists of candidates (apparentement). Instability, variety and complicated some of electoral rules may causes to delegitimize the electoral system as a whole in future. It may be dangerous for democracy. In author’s opinion it does not mean that it is unnecessary to change the local government electoral law. It can be modified but every single change must be think over first. That is because of the electoral system is the most specific manipulative instrument of politics. Healthy partisan competition requires that the election rules are not be changed too frequent, especially before the election.
