It is a pity that the Senate rejects the amendment to the Committee on Investigating Russian Influence, which means it is not interested in polishing this law into the best possible formula, it is only interested in fueling political discord , BPM chief Marcin reviewed Put radio on Friday.
The Senate passed a resolution to reject President Andrzej Duda’s amendment to the law on the appointment of a commission to investigate Russian influence on Poland’s security. Now the Senate’s decision will have to be considered by the Sejm, which rejects the Senate’s position by an absolute majority of votes in the presence of at least half the statutory number of deputies.
Przydacz, who was asked on Zet radio on Friday about the Senate’s position, said it was a pity that the Senate rejected this novella.
This means that he is not interested in polishing this bill to the best of its ability, but he is interested in fueling some political strife.
said the head of the president’s Office of International Policy.
According to him, this commission aims at “transparency, full transparency and ridding Polish politics of various kinds of Russian influences, which would not affect Poland for unknown reasons”.
In recent decades, we all agree that Russian influence has been present in Germany and other countries in the region. Only Poland would be completely imbued with these influences. Especially in previous years, when the PO-PSL coalition signed long-term gas contracts, when it was said that they wanted a dialogue with Russia as it is
said the head of BPM.
On May 31, the law establishing a commission for investigating Russian influence on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in the years 2007-2022 entered into force, which the president signed a few days earlier and at the same time announced that it would be referred to the Constitutional Tribunal. On June 2, Andrzej Duda submitted a draft amendment to the law to the Sejm, which was passed by the House in mid-June.
According to the amendment, parliamentarians will not be able to sit on the committee for investigating Russian influence, the countermeasures in the current law will be lifted (including the ban on performing functions related to the alienation of public funds for a period of up to 10 years), and the main subject of the contract will be the acknowledgment that the person does not guarantee the proper performance of activities of public interest; the decision of the commission must be appealed to the Court of Appeal in Warsaw.
Opposition reaction
During the Senate debate, Senator Rapporteur Aleksander Pociej (KO) said that it is not known why the president introduced the draft amendment just after he signed the law on the commission’s nomination. Senator KO presented a slew of allegations against the amendment, especially the lack of – as he said – a definition of what it means for someone to act under Russian influence. He argued that the commission could attribute such action to anyone.
The committee is free to make decisions as it sees fit
Pocie said.
He stressed that during the work of the committees, experts and the Commissioner for Human Rights have not left a dry thread about this project. According to Pociej, the law on the Commission for Investigating Russian Influence “does not fit into any context of the normal functioning of the state and violates all possible norms of a democratic state”. Senator KO stressed that there is an appropriate tool in the Polish legal system, and that is the parliamentary commission of inquiry.
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Source: wPolityce