Polish presidency in the first years of the Third Republic of Poland

Much had been written on presidency in the first years of the Third Republic of Poland, both from the legal-constitutional and political science perspectives. This time, it is about establishing a connection between the manner of exercising the competences of the President of the People's Republic of Poland and the President of the Republic of Poland in the first years of the systemic transformation by persons exercising this function on the one hand and the policy they represented after obtaining the office. Presidential competences are an important instrument in realizing the policy of a person holding the office of the head of state. In the analyzed period this aspect had been subject to multisided examination as regards the presidency of both general Wojciech Jaruzelski and Lech Walesa.