“Regarding the case of two former MPs – Kaminski and Vesik and the appeal to the police, we remind you that a court decision is required in accordance with Article 79, Paragraph 1 of the Election Code. Then the police will bring the former MPs to court. We act within the law. Kaminski and Wasik broke the law and abused their power. That is why the judgment was passed today. We respect the law and do not abuse our authority. The police are waiting for the relevant court order,” Kierwinski wrote on the X platform on Friday.
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Kaminski and Wasik were legally sentenced. Will they go to jail?
Former boss CBA and former Minister of Internal Affairs Mariusz Kaminski and his ex Deputy Maciej Wąsik They stayed December He was sentenced by the final judgment Two years imprisonment for the act e. Land scandal.
Therefore, the Speaker of the Seimas, Shimon Holovnia, signed the decision to terminate the parliamentary mandates of Kaminski and Vesik, who represent the Law and Justice Parliament.
PiS politicians do not recognize the court verdict. They talk about “revenge” and “political prisoners”. In his turn, President Andrzej Duda indicated in a letter to the speaker of the Sejm that there was no basis for applying the amnesty law to Kaminski and Vesik in 2015. Statement on expiration of mandate.
The Supreme Court overturned Holonia's decision
On Thursday, the prosecutor's office asked the court to stop the execution proceedings against Kaminski and Vesik, as well as to suspend the execution of sentences related to the pardon law.
In turn, the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court annulled the decision of the speaker of the Seimas regarding the expiration of the mandate of MP Vasik. According to IKN, the results of the final conviction were nullified by the application of the Pardon Act, and the validity or viability of the Pardon Act cannot be reviewed by either the Supreme Court or the Constitutional Tribunal.
Holonia said at a press conference on Thursday that he submitted the appeals of Maciej Vesic and Mariusz Kaminski to the Labor and Social Insurance Chamber of the Supreme Court against the decision to terminate the mandate and is waiting for that chamber's response. He added that in this situation, Kaminski would not be allowed to perform his parliamentary duties and Vasik's condition was “uncertain”.
Controversy over Supreme Court Chambers and the Pardon Law
Critics of the changes made by PiS in the judicial system claim that the Supreme Court's Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber consists only of the so-called Judges, which is why, according to some Supreme Courts and European Tribunals, it is not a court.
In theory, Kaminski and Vesik could still be pardoned by the president. However, his office claims that Andrzej Duda will not do thisBecause the first pardon remains valid.
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