From the very beginning, the issue of the KPO project has evoked emotions in the United Right, but the parliament is made up of more deputies than just the parliamentary majority, government spokesman Piotr Müller said. He added that he hoped the opposition would hear reasonable voices about mobilizing EU funds.
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The government spokesman was asked in the Sejm on Wednesday evening about the announcement by Sebastian Kalety, Deputy Minister of Justice and Solidarity Poland politician, that his group would oppose the draft amendment to the law on the Supreme Court, which EU minister Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk said he would reach an important milestone indicated by the European Commission in the National Reconstruction Plan. Müller was asked whether the SP’s position would have consequences in the government coalition.
From the very beginning, the issue of the project evoked emotions in the United Right. This is what makes us different. EU issues have been different for us since the beginning, so this is nothing new
Muller said. He noted that “parliament consists of more deputies than just the parliamentary majority of the United Right” and noted that he hopes “there will also be reasonable voices on mobilizing EU funds”.
“I don’t know where the opposition’s dilemma is here.”
He added that “a few weeks ago the opposition said that releasing funds from the KPO was Poland’s raison d’état, that it was a scandal that they didn’t exist, that the PiS government blocked these funds because they want don’t change the laws.”
At the moment there is a project on the table that has been agreed in difficult negotiations between Poland and the European Commission, a project that respects Poland’s autonomy in terms of judicial autonomy, but at the same time is also accepted by the EC, which declares that once approved in this form it will unlock EU funds, so I don’t know where the opposition’s dilemma is here
said a government spokesman.
Müller added that he “understands that Solidarna Polska has been highlighting these differences for some time, but the opposition thundered on this point, saying that the changes that free up funds for Poland should be adopted as soon as possible.”
Therefore, they have a good chance of doing this
he said.
The government spokesman judged that “some emotions will subside and reflection will come from members of the opposition who take state affairs (…) more broadly than just through the perspective of parliamentary elections and this project will gain support.”
The first reading of the draft amendment to the Supreme Court Act will take place in the Sejm on Thursday.
Meeting of the Prime Minister and the Marshal of the Sejm with the heads of parliamentary clubs and circles
On Wednesday, Sejm Chairman Elżbieta Witek and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met in the Sejm with the heads of parliamentary clubs and circles on how to work on the draft amendment to the Supreme Court law. On Wednesday there was also a meeting of the leaders of the opposition groups in the Sejm. It was agreed that opposition lawyers would analyze the bill on the Supreme Court submitted to the Sejm by PiS for necessary changes that could be supported by the entire opposition, according to information obtained by PAP.
A 12-page draft of the Supreme Court law amendment was submitted to the Sejm by PiS deputies on Tuesday night. According to the authors, the proposed regulations aim to achieve the key milestone set by the European Commission on FPO.
Pursuant to the draft amendments to the Supreme Court Act, disciplinary and immunity cases of judges will be adjudicated by the Supreme Administrative Court. This means that the Supreme Court’s newly created Chamber of Professional Responsibility loses its power to adjudicate judges’ cases.
The draft also provides for fundamental changes with regard to the so-called review of the independence and impartiality of the judge. This is a new institution introduced this summer by the presidential amendment to the Supreme Court law. It is intended to enable the examination of whether a judge meets the requirements of independence and impartiality, taking into account the circumstances surrounding his appointment and his conduct after his appointment, if in the circumstances of a particular case these could lead to a violation of the independence or standard of impartiality affecting the outcome of the case. Currently, the request can be made by a party to the proceedings that is led by a particular judge. Under the proposed amendments, the judge’s impartiality test can be initiated not only by the litigant, but also “ex officio” by the court itself. The draft also supplements the possibility of examining the requirements of independence and impartiality during the “test” with the premise of establishing a court “on the basis of a law”.
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Source: wPolityce