Abstrakt: | Free and fair elections are the method used to select from among the people who
have hold specified elective position or public office. In this context, elections are
a way of implementing the selection process of the political elite, allowing procedural
participation of citizens in shaping political representation. As a result of
their execution decisions are made about the distribution of power, which depends
on the direction in the act of voting revealed political preferences resulting from
translating the achievements of individual votes mandated. Selection of the representatives
of the society and subjectivity attributing their decision-making assumes
that voters will be able to choose from among themselves those who possess the
desired skills, and those who are elected, they will make decisions in the interest
of the whole community. The article treats the selection of political elites as a basic
function of elections, acting on the issues of creating the political leadership in the
parliamentary election, the President of Poland, local governments and the European
Parliament. |