– If Maciej Vesic and Mariusz Kaminski go to prison, Andrzej Duda said he will treat them as political prisoners – said Wojciech Kolarski, KPRP State Secretary in an interview with RMF FM.
The Minister of the President also emphasized that the politicians of law and justice were already pardoned in 2015. – The president will not pardon them anymore. Anyone who wants it is being pushed to commit illegalities, Kolarski said.
Earlier, the head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Grazyna Ignacak-Bandich expressed the same opinion. “We consider Maciej Vesik and Mariusz Kaminski political prisoners, because there is no doubt that we are dealing with political retribution,” he emphasized.
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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