There was no in-depth legal analysis of these provisions by the US Embassy, which passed the information on to the US State Department. The law on the Commission for Investigating Russian Influence does not allow blocking the ability to participate in the elections, Marcin Przydacz, head of the presidential office for international policy, told RMF FM on Tuesday.
The US government is concerned about the bill
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Monday that the US government is concerned about the Russian Influence Investigation Commission law, which could be used to disrupt free and fair elections in Poland. He called on the Polish government not to use the new law to block opposition politicians’ candidacies.
There was no in-depth analysis
Przydacz said in RMF FM on Tuesday, referring to these words, that “there was no in-depth legal analysis of these US embassy provisions.” When questioned, he explained that it is not the State Department that follows the form of Polish regulations, and that information on this subject is sent to him by the US Embassy.
Also yesterday there were discussions about whether people will be blocked in the candidacy process (in elections) and they won’t be, even in Poland everyone knows it, I’m surprised the US embassy doesn’t know this when they tell it to the State Department Business sends
– he said.
The president’s minister stressed that the law did not provide for the possibility of preventing anyone from taking part in the elections.
A person will not be able to hold an office in which he has public funds after going through the full procedure and judicial verification
he explained.
The law was sent to the Constitutional Tribunal
When asked if the president had signed a law that he knew was unconstitutional, Przydacz replied that if the president had doubts about the law’s unconstitutionality, he would not have signed it. He added that the referral of the bill to the Constitutional Court was related to the objections raised.
To break through such discussions, the Court will issue a follow-up audit
– he said.
When asked whether the law is constitutional, “yes or no”, the head of the BPM replied “yes, it is constitutional”. He added that otherwise the president would veto it or refer it to the Constitutional Court as unconstitutional, pointing to a specific provision.
Before noon on Monday, President Andrzej Duda announced that he had decided to sign the law establishing the State Commission for the Study of Russian Influences on the Internal Security of the Republic of Poland in 2007-2022 and that he would refer it to the Constitutional Tribunal .
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Source: wPolityce