Four political groups in the European Parliament – the European People’s Party, Socialists and Democrats, Renew Europe and the Greens – agreed on Tuesday to organize a debate in the European Parliament on Wednesday on Poland’s law establishing a special committee to investigate Russia’s influence on to examine Poland’s internal politics. security, MEP Andrzej Andrzej told PAP Halicki (PO). Opposition members of the European Parliament are pushing for another political lynch of Poland – said MEP Izabela Kloc (PiS).
The opposition organizes a debate in the EP
The decision was made on Tuesday afternoon. The debate will be organized urgently. The four groups agreed that the title of the debate is an appeal to the European Commission and the Council of the European Union to respond to the assault on democracy in Poland
Halicki said.
Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders will speak on behalf of the European Commission in the debate on Lex Tusk
Halicki added.
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“Zero loyalty” from members of the opposition
The debate is criticized by MEP Izabela Kloc (PiS).
The debate in the EP is a typical pre-emptive agitation by some opposition politicians and their Brussels allies. Is this how someone who has nothing to blame for contacts with Russia reacts in this way? Perhaps the Germans or the French were afraid of similar settlements in their own backyard. On the other hand, members of the opposition, striving for another political lynching of Poland, are giving themselves a certificate of zero loyalty to the Polish raison d’état
Kloc told PAP.
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On Monday, President Andrzej Duda announced that he had decided to sign the law establishing a commission to investigate Russian influence on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in 2007-2022 and that he would refer it to the Constitutional Tribunal in 2007 . a follow-up procedure.
On April 14, the Sejm passed the law establishing a commission to investigate Russian influence. They started setting it up in December last year. PiS Delegates. They pointed out that the commission should operate under principles similar to those of the verification commission for the re-privatization of Warsaw.
May 11 this year The Senate passed a resolution to reject the bill on the establishment of this committee. On Friday, the Sejm voted against the Senate resolution.
The committee would analyze official activities, create, duplicate, share information with third parties; influencing the content of board decisions; making harmful decisions; making advance directives on behalf of a government agency or company; entering into contracts or disposing of public or corporate funds.
Decisions that may be taken by the committee include: revoking an administrative decision issued as a result of Russian influence, issuing a ban on performing functions related to having public funds for a maximum period of 10 years, and the revocation and prohibition of the security clearance for 10 years.
The aim of the commission to investigate Russian influence is absolutely not political strife or election interference, but to investigate and stigmatize Russian influence in Poland, Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk said in an interview with PAP on Tuesday.
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Source: wPolityce