Does respecting the rights of minorities mean that you can decide who can appoint a minority as a representative?” – Prof. asked opposition representatives today in the TVP Info studio, in the context of the rejection of PiS candidates in the presidiums of the Sejm and the Senate. Andrzej Zybertowicz.
The right of a parliamentary minority consists merely in the possibility of nominating one’s candidate for the Presidium of the Sejm and the Senate. Democracy means that we will decide who will be elected and who will not. This is where, according to MEP Marek Balt of SLD, the principles of democracy and the rule of law are collapsing according to the opposition coalition with a majority in the new parliament.
What about the principles of democracy and the rule of law?
These clear conclusions come from today’s television discussion in the program “Woronicza 17” on TVP Info, where arguments about the rejection by the KO-Trzecia Droga-Lewica-Konfederacja coalition of PiS candidates for deputy chairmen of the Sejm and the Senate were discussed by: among others, Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz and the aforementioned MEP Balt.
(The discussion about forcing the largest parliamentary club, PiS, to choose who to appoint to the Presidium of the Sejm and the Senate) is about whether these groups, which have gained the trust of millions of Poles, are likely to to build a government, will maintain their commitment to the principles of democracy and the rule of law and be treated seriously or only as an instrument of political struggle
– said an adviser to President Andrzej Duda, who called on the opposition to actually respect, and not just declare, the rights of the parliamentary minority.
Using the example of the Sejm and the Senate, you showed that the formula: “democracy is rule by the majority with respect for the rights of minorities” was only a propaganda maneuver by PiS, but that you no longer feel bound by the principles you have been preaching for years. in the opposition. Does respect for the rights of minorities also mean that you can decide who can appoint the minority as representatives?
– asked Balta Prof. Zybertowicz.
Balt: We decide
We don’t decide who a minority can nominate, but who we choose
– the Polish Member of the European Parliament from the SLD replied directly
A person may not arouse ideological sympathies, he may not arouse sympathy as a person, but Marshal Witek clearly won in her constituency and received almost 90,000 votes. voters’ hair, voters trusted her, just like MP Czarzasty, among others. And now you’re assuming that, in the name of defending the rule of law, you’ll change who voters can trust
– points out this fragment of Prof. Zybertowicz’s discussion.
The international context of the president’s decision
Another topic of discussion was the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland to first entrust the mission of forming a government to the current Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, as a representative of PiS, who decisively won the October elections .
By entrusting the mission of forming a government to Mateusz Morawiecki, the president did not break the law, but acted contrary to good political practices.
– said PSL MP Ireneusz Raś on TVP Info. He suggested in this context that the whole “doomed to failure” operation is aimed at the Morawiecki government appointing the head of the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority for another five years.
The President announced the decision to entrust, as a first constitutional step, the possibility of forming a government to Prime Minister Morawiecki before the coalition agreement was signed and announced.
– recalled the President’s advisor in this context.
Secondly, the President takes into account good habits, which are important, but he is balancing this whole situation not only with the personnel issue that you mentioned, which can be important, but also with a certain international context.
– noted Prof. Zybertowicz.
According to him, it is no coincidence that after the parliamentary elections in Poland, the European Parliament launched a “previously developed concept” that should lead to “depriving national governments of key powers, including in the field of state security.”
If this project of transferring the powers of national governments to Brussels, (…) this process of stripping the powers of nation states had been completed before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, before the Russian aggression, Poland would not have have been able to immediately start providing aid to Ukraine and immediately launch a hub through which Americans and British can help Ukraine
– added the presidential advisor.
Following the claims of MEP Balt, it can be assumed that all minorities, not only parliamentary ones, can submit demands and projects regarding, for example, the demands of his community: rights for the LGBT community, civil partnerships, liberalization of abortion or the prevention of abortion. climate change. However, this is where minority rights end. Let them decide for others.
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Source: wPolityce