PiS MPs withdrew draft resolutions calling on the government to meet the demands of protesting farmers. This came after MPs from the ruling coalition voted to table their own amendments to the resolutions at a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. One of them suggested that the decision to embargo all agricultural products from Ukraine should be preceded by negotiations with the European Commission.
The first reading of three parliamentary draft resolutions calling on the government to take action to meet the demands of protesting farmers took place in the Sejm on Friday during a meeting of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
KO wants negotiations with the European Commission
The bill submitted by PiS MPs and justified by Robert Telus, calling on the government to immediately introduce an indefinite embargo on all agricultural products from Ukraine, was withdrawn by the petitioners after the committee voted on the amendment submitted by Piotr Głowski (KO). This amendment stated that the decision on the embargo must be preceded by negotiations with the European Commission.
Meeting of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development – KO tabled an amendment to our draft resolution in defense of Polish farmers, removing the call for an immediate unilateral embargo on Ukrainian food products. All PSL MPs vote against the embargo and in favor of the amendment
– PiS MP Paweł Szrot wrote on the X platform.
They blame the PiS government
The second PiS project, justified by Anna Gembicka and prepared – as she assured – by farmers, was withdrawn after the committee voted on the amendment submitted by Zbigniew Sosnowski (PSL-TD). It contains a statement that the current difficult situation in agriculture was caused by the negligence and incompetence of the previous government.
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Confederation MPs also withdrew their project, justified by Krzysztof Mulawa, who, among other things, called for the rejection of the EU’s climate policy.
The committee agreed to the proposal of the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Mirosław Maliszewski (PSL-TD), who proposed that the Presidium should work on another project, which would be created with the participation of representatives of agricultural communities.
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Source: wPolityce