After a burst of negotiations, fully free elections were scheduled for March 1990, in contrast to the semi-free elections held in Poland in June 1989.

In semi-free elections, Solidarity was the overwhelming victor, and the Communist regime collapsed.

April 17 - Poland, Solidarity was again legalized and allowed to participate in semi-free elections on June 4.

Haiti was not to see a free or semi-free election until after the fall of Duvalier's son Jean-Claude Duvalier in February 1986.

During the historic semi-free June 1989 elections, the NZS actively helps Solidarity candidates.

The Roundtable Talks between the government and the Solidarity-led opposition resulted in semi-free elections in 1989.

Having been the first to dare, Poland settled for semi-free elections that nonetheless ended Communist monopoly of power.

During the semi-free elections in 1989, Urban candidated as an independent (he was never a member of the PZPR).

In the semi-free election last June, all but one of 100 seats in the upper house went to Solidarity-backed candidates.

The first free or semi-free elections were held during the perestroika in late 1980s.