Referendum changes

The electoral system of single mandate districts, or SMDs, is being hotly debated in Poland at the moment.

Especially that Poles will shortly have to decide in a referendum.

This is going to be one of three questions in a national referendum scheduled for September.

In order to find out what possible implications this may have for Polish political life, Michał Owczarek spoke to Paweł Kawarski of The Madison Foundation that fosters the single member district system for Poland.

“We cannot say if in Poland in case of adopting SMD's there will [still] be two parties, Civic Platform and Law And Justice, because the character of parties under this system is quite different,” Kawarski said.