The bill on the Commission for Investigating Russian Influence will certainly be submitted to the Constitutional Tribunal before the work of this Commission begins; I hope in no more than two weeks, President Andrzej Duda stressed.
The president’s request is not yet sent to the Constitutional Court? “It’s Complete Bullshit”
On Monday, the president announced that he had signed the law establishing a commission to investigate Russian influence and that he would refer it – as a follow-up – to the Constitutional Tribunal.
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Before 12 noon on Thursday, the rmf24.pl portal reported that the presidential application would be submitted to the Constitutional Tribunal at the earliest at the beginning of the summer break and that “only now are the associates of the president accepting the individual provisions of the controversial act. “
President Andrzej Duda referred to the publication on Twitter.
Please do not believe these “revelations”. This is complete nonsense. The request will certainly be submitted to the Constitutional Tribunal before the commission’s work begins, and I hope it will be done in no more than 2 weeks. We are working
emphasized the president.
Russian Influence Commission
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 will operate on 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. Last Friday, the Sejm voted against the Senate resolution. On Monday, President Duda announced that he had signed the law and that he would refer it – as a follow-up – to the Constitutional Tribunal.
The law was published in the Journal of Laws on Tuesday and took effect on Wednesday.
Under the law, the commission will consist of 9 members in the rank of Secretary of State, appointed and dismissed by the Sejm.
The Commission must 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.
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Source: wPolityce