– I decided to start Pardon process – President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday at the conference with the spouses of Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Vesic. He added that he has also appealed to the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General Adam Bodnar to release them from prison until the trial is over.
Holovnia on the pardon procedure: it can last up to half a year
Shimon Holovania responded to the president's statement on TVN24 on Friday. – If I say that it follows some logical sequence, I am probably exaggerating, he said.
In addition, he said that “it was a good de-escalation decision to finally admit, because Mr. President did it yesterday, that there is a district court conviction, that the pardon was ineffective, and the pardon procedure has started.” Once again against Messrs. Kaminski and Vesik.”
– The only problem is that, as we already know, after numerous consultations with criminal law experts yesterday, the president did not use the presidential pardon under Article 139, which could have resulted in his release from prison yesterday, and that was within the limits. His competence, but he chose the way from the Criminal Procedure Code, which is long and can last up to half a year,” said the Marshal of the Seimas.
He repeated that he sees the president's decision as a “step in the right direction”, but he does not understand what tool Duda used and why.
– From my point of view as the Speaker of the Seimas, one thing is clear. “The president accepted the decision of the district court because he pardoned him or the sentence that the verdict imposed on the gentlemen, so he also recognized the fact that both of them no longer have a parliamentary mandate,” Holonia added.
What does the president's decision mean regarding Kaminski and Vesik?
Article 568 of the Code of Criminal Procedure referred to by Andrzej Duda stipulates that pardon requests addressed directly to the President will be forwarded to the Prosecutor General for review. After rendering the conclusion, the court must transfer the case to the first instance to consider this case. The court must consider the request within two months of receiving it.
The regulations state that if “particularly important reasons” support a pardon, especially when it is justified by the length of the remaining sentence, the court and the state government can suspend the execution of the sentence or order its termination. Enforcement pending completion of the pardon process.
PiS politicians were arrested. They went to prison
Mariusz Kaminski and Mackie Vesik stayed on Tuesday evening They were arrested in the presidential palace, where they stayed at the invitation of the president. PiS politicians were first taken to the police station at ul. Grenadiers, and then in Grokhov's advance division.
On Wednesday, they were transferred to other prisons – Kaminski prison in Radom and Vesik in the town of Przytuli Stare near Ostrolenka. Before that, both politicians started a hunger strike.
The former ministers remained December In 2023, he was sentenced to 2 years in prison in the activity e. land scandal, even though President Andrzej Duda used the amnesty law against them in 2015. He did so after a partial ruling, which lawyers dispute.
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