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| 1993, Jan. 7 |
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| Parliament approved an abortion bill that restricted the availability of abortion, but removed the original clause making a woman criminally responsible for her own abortion. | 1 |
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| Jan. 21 |
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| Lech Walesa presented the Sejm with a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that would forbid censorship, grant the right of privacy, ban forced assimilation of minorities, and give citizens the right to examine their personal files held by the authorities. The Sejm passed the proposed charter by 251 votes to 72. | 2 |
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| Feb. 28 |
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| Janusz Rewinski, chairman of the Polish Beer Lovers' Party, which had won 16 seats in the Sejm in October 1991, was expelled from the party and accused of embezzling party funds. | 3 |
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| April 19 |
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| Ceremonies were held commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Among those present were Itzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister, and U.S. vice president Al Gore. | 4 |
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| May 28 |
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| Prime Minister Suchocka was given a no-confidence vote by the Solidarity parliamentary group. She tendered her resignation, but Walesa did not accept it. Walesa formally dissolved the Sejm on May 31 and on June 2 said elections to both the Sejm and the Senate would be held on Sept. 19. | 5 |
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| April 30 |
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| The Sejm approved privatization of more than 600 enterprises, to take effect June 14. | 6 |
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| May 5 |
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| More than 600,000 teachers and health care workers went on strike for higher wages. | 7 |
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| June 1 |
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| The Council of Ministers approved a concordat with the Vatican, under which the state recognized religious marriages and accepted the teaching of religion in schools. | 8 |
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| Sept. 17 |
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| The last remaining Russian troops withdrew from Polish soil on the fifty-fourth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. | 9 |
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| Sept. 19 |
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| General elections. The Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) and the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) won a majority of seats in the Sejm. The SLD took 171 and the PSL took 132 out of a total of 460 seats. Both parties had roots in the former communist regime. The results appeared to be a protest against the social and economic costs of the transition to a market economy. | 10 |
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