An excess without any constitutional basis – that is what Prof. Ryszard Piotrowski, a constitutionalist from the University of Warsaw, assessed the actions of the government, and especially of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration, on whose orders police officers, with the support of the State Protection Service, entered the Presidential Palace in the absence of the Head of State and illegally detained MPs Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik.
Prof. Piotrowski commented on this scandalous event on Radio Szczecin. Visibly moved, he noted that this was an unprecedented event:
We have a certain excesses in the behavior of law enforcement agencies, which consist of actions that violate the dignity of the state and the dignity of the Republic of Poland. After all, it is about the President of the Republic of Poland, not about apprehending the perpetrators of a crime who have just committed it, and now the police are chasing them to the presidential palace and arresting them there. We are dealing with a situation of a different nature. The president apparently treated these parliamentarians as his guests. At least that’s how it should be understood, otherwise they wouldn’t be in the presidential palace. In my opinion, this is an insult to the president. In this way, the president was treated as if he had no right to receive people he had previously pardoned. There was no reason to show such disrespect to the Republic of Poland.
The constitutionalist emphasized that the victim of yesterday’s action was primarily the Polish state:
This is not so much a lack of respect for the president, but a lack of respect for the Polish stateto which the President of the Republic of Poland belongs, and this President of the Republic of Poland is visited at all times by the police and treated as if his decisions could be subordinated to the decisions of the district court executing the sentence.
When asked about the possible reaction of the head of state (the conversation took place a few tens of minutes after the illegal detention of MPs Kamiński and Wąsik), he replied that he expected it to be “restrained, but appropriate to the seriousness of the office. the seriousness of the state, the seriousness of the Republic of Poland”:
We are not in a country – I do not want to name any country – where the president is harassed by the police at any time, especially when he is not in the palace. This is something completely incredible. And this is also a problem of the relationship between the judiciary, which, as I understand it, was responsible for ordering the execution of this sentence, and the executive, which represents the President here.
Finally, the expert stated bluntly that the authorities had violated the Constitution:
This is very surprising to me. I cannot find any basis, any constitutional basis, that would legitimize or justify this kind of practice. And I must say that this is completely unnecessary.
This is another vote that proves that the new authorities do not care at all about the law, but also about the well-being of the Republic of Poland and some respect for its first citizen.
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Source: wPolityce