On 7 December 1989, a month after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Zentraler Runder Tisch, the Central Round Table, met for the first time in East Berlin. Church representatives without a vote called the meeting and chaired it. The seats were divided equally, 19 to 19, between the old forces of the GDR and the new opposition groups. One of its first and most important subjects was the dissolution of the Stasi. It met sixteen times, for the last time on 12 March 1990, just before the first free election. Round tables on the same model were set up across the country, down to the level of towns. The table was named after the Polish round table. Its seating was rectangular.