The Senate usurps powers that do not derive from the Constitution or the laws. This is how government spokesman Piotr Müller commented on the Senate’s appointment of a committee to investigate Russian influence. He noted that the Senate Judiciary Committee has no legal basis to investigate any issues.
On Thursday, the Senate passed a resolution to appoint an extraordinary commission to investigate Russian influence on the decisions of Poland’s public authorities. The committee consisted of seven senators with a majority in the Senate. PiS has not registered its members. The Senate Special Committee will have no investigative powers. It will only be active until the end of the current Senate term.
In accordance with the resolution, from 2005 the Extraordinary Commission will investigate Russian influence on the process of lawmaking and application in Poland. Its duties also include identifying potential threats to the Russian special services and indicating ways to counter these threats, including by introducing appropriate measures. legal solutions.
The government spokesman thought the appointment of the Senate committee was a bizarre situation. As he noted, PO argued that a parliamentary committee to investigate Russian influence, which has legal powers, was not necessary.
Now the Senate is building its own committee. What is this commission for? To give the impression that there is a parallel institution that examines issues related to Russian influence
he pointed it out.
In the Polish constitutional order, the Senate has no control function. The Senate usurps powers that do not derive from the constitution or statutes. They set up a committee which I don’t really know what to do because there is no legal basis to investigate any issues.
said a government spokesman. He added that a committee like the Senate could very well be appointed by each city’s council.
He stressed that the commission established by law (in the Sejm) has certain powers: it can convene its meetings or take administrative measures that, according to Müller, will allow it to collect the material necessary to prepare a report .
I regret that the Opposition has not reported its members to the Legislative Committee because then it could actually have its representatives on the Committee, which has real powers and legal power to collect material
– added.
Appointment of members of the Committee on Russian Influence
On August 30, at the last meeting scheduled for this term, the Sejm appointed nine members of the Committee on Russian Influence on the Internal Security of the Republic of Poland in 2007-2022. They were all proposed by PiS, the opposition did not present their candidates and did not participate in the vote.
May 31 In 2007, on the initiative of PiS, the law on the establishment of a commission to investigate 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 announced at the same time that it would be brought before the Constitutional Court. On June 2, Andrzej Duda submitted a draft amendment to this law to the Sejm. It passed on June 16, and on June 28, the delegates rejected the Senate’s objection to this amendment. The president signed the amendment on July 31. It came into force in August.
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