If an illegal, unconstitutional committee on Russian influence is created by the Sejm, a special Senate committee will be created at the next Senate session in September, Senate Marshal Tomasz Grodzki said. When asked about Roman Giertych’s start in the Sejm elections, he said he would help the KO in a difficult district.
Grodzki threatens to appoint a Senate committee
The parliamentary clubs have been informed that they have until August 29 to nominate candidates to the commission for investigating Russian influence on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in 2007-2022, said Andrzej Grzegrzółka, director of the Sejm Information Center, Friday. . The clubs KO, PSL and Lewica announced that they would not nominate their candidates to the committee. The list of candidates for the committee is presented by PiS.
The Marshal of the Senate, in an interview with journalists in the Sejm, stressed that this commission is unconstitutional.
From the outset, we consider this commission to be unconstitutional and promote impunity, as its members will not be subject to any scrutiny and possible sanctions. We also want nothing to do with this committee
said Grodzki.
He judged that the ruling camp was sending conflicting signals regarding the appointment of a committee on Russian influence.
If created, a legal, fully constitutional, regulatory-compliant Senate Special Committee to Investigate Russian Influence will be set up at the next Senate meeting in September, and we even have an idea who we will be the first to present to this meeting. to invite
said Grodzki.
He explained that they were PiS politicians: the former head of the Ministry of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Grodzki recalled that the Senate of this term will meet again in September.
If this illegal, unconstitutional committee appointed by the Sejm is created, a Senate committee will be created
Grodzki emphasized.
He explained that it was a committee modeled on the one created in the Senate for surveillance with the Pegasus program.
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Commission for two influence of Russia
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 came into force, which the president signed a few days earlier and at the same time announced that it would be referred to the Constitutional Court. Then, on June 2, Andrzej Duda submitted a draft amendment to this law to the Sejm. The Sejm passed it on June 16. On June 28, delegates rejected the Senate’s objection to this amendment. The president signed the amendment on July 31. It came into effect in August.
Under the presidential amendment, lawmakers will not be able to sit on the committee investigating Russian influence; the preventive measures previously included in the law have been abolished (including the prohibition on performing functions related to the provision of public funds for a maximum period of up to 10 years), and the main subject of the committee will be be the admission that the person does not guarantee the proper performance of activities in the public interest; The decision of the commission must be appealed to the Court of Appeal in Warsaw.
Under the law, the commission consists of nine members of the rank of secretary of state, appointed and dismissed by the Sejm. The right to submit no more than 9 candidates for members of the committee to the Marshal of the Sejm shall be granted to each deputy or parliamentary club within the time limit specified by the Marshal.
Giertych’s starts from the KO list
Grodzki was also asked about Roman Giertych’s participation in the elections to the Sejm. Let us not forget that during a meeting with the citizens of Sopot, the chairman of the Civic Platform, Donald Tusk, announced that on the list of the Civic Coalition, the Sejm in the province of Świętokrzyskie Roman Giertych will start from the last position.
Tusk also addressed the deputy prime minister, PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński, saying: “So that you don’t feel lonely, that you feel a little better – and I’m doing it just for you, Jarosław Kaczyński – I will be your deputy Prime Minister Roman Giertych on this list, on our list last place.”
In an interview with journalists, Grodzki said that “Giertych’s lawyer, even if we consider him a controversial politician, we will not deny him that he is a heavyweight politician.”
Therefore, I am convinced that it will help the KO list in a difficult district, namely for us (voivodeship) Świętokrzyskie
said Grodzki.
When asked about Giertych’s conservative views on abortion, the Marshal of the Senate ordered that Giertych be questioned.
Roman Giertych is a lawyer and politician, former president of the League of Polish Families party, who was represented in parliament in 2001-2007. From 2006 to 2007, the party was part of the governing coalition with PiS and Samoobrona RP. In 2006-2007, Giertych served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Education in the governments of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński.
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship is the second constituency in Poland in terms of the number of seats – there are 16 up for grabs here. Only Warsaw has more – 20.
In the 2019 parliamentary election in Świętokrzyskie, Law and Justice won, winning 10 seats. Three were won by the Civic Coalition, and one by the Left, PSL and Konfederacja. PiS also won in all three Senate districts.
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Source: wPolityce