Jerzy Regulski – a co-founder of the local government of the Third Polish Republic

Abstract

Professor Jerzy Regulski played a key role in the process of building the self-government of the Third Polish Republic. He initiated his work on the self-government system as a part of the “Experience and Future” seminar on the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. During the period of the Polish Peoples Republic, the implementation of the developed opinions and assumptions was not possible. However, they turned out to be extremely valuable during the period of political transformation. During the session of the Round Table, Regulski was assignet to preside the works of the opposition party as a part of the Association and Self-Government Sub-team. After the victorious for the solidarity camp elections on June 4, 1989, Regulski supervised the realisation of local government reform. The restitution of communal self-government in 1990 was followed by establishing a direct self-government body at district and voivodship level in 1999.