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As part of a power sharing agreement between the communist authorities and representatives of the Solidarity movement, partly free elections were held to the lower house of Poland’s parliament, with a majority of seats reserved for candidates from the communist party, and completely free elections to the upper house, the Senate. The following month, Contractual