On Wednesday, the presidential couple Andrzej Duda and Agata Kornhauser-Duda will participate in the celebration of the 232nd anniversary of the adoption of the constitution on May 3. The president will present state awards and a speech is also planned at the Castle Square.
Bee. 8:30 am Andrzej Duda will hand over the nominations for general and admiral to eight officers of the Polish army at the presidential palace. A speech by the head of state is planned during the ceremony.
Bee. 9:30 am in the Cathedral Basilica of the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist in Warsaw, a mass will be held in the intention of the fatherland.
Bee. 11 during the ceremony at the Royal Castle, the president will present state honours. The president’s speech is scheduled for 12 noon on Kasteelplein.
In an interview with PAP, the head of the cabinet of the president, Paweł Szrot, drew attention to the special circumstances of the holiday: it was the second anniversary of the adoption of the constitution on May 3 during the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
The Constitution of May 3 is the result of all the nations that were part of the First Polish Republic – not only Poles, but also Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. I think that will be in the president’s message
Shrot said.
He added that the president called for the presence of “all residents of Varsov, Poland, including our guests from Ukraine, in Castle Square to celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the constitution on May 3.”
Constitution of May 3
The May 3 National Day is celebrated on the anniversary of the adoption in 1791 of the May 3 Constitution. The document was the first constitution in modern Europe and the second in the world after the American one. The anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution on May 3 is a public holiday established in 1919. During the period of the People’s Republic of Poland, its public celebration was banned and in 1990 it became a national holiday again.
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Source: wPolityce