After the Speaker of the Seimas, Shimon Holovnia, terminated the mandates of PiS MPs Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Vesik, both politicians appealed to the Supreme Court, and the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs overturned Marshall's decision first in Vasik and then. The Kaminsky case.
Gronkevich-Waltz: The speaker of the Seimas cannot change the final decision
“PiS is trying to intimidate the Speaker of the Seimas to agree to the participation of non-MPs in the work of the Seimas, they are trying the same with the Penal Court, so that they do not issue an order on the arrest of the convicted. In fact, this threat is a statement of rebellion against the state,” wrote Roman Giertich, MP of the Civil Coalition, on the X website (formerly Twitter).
Gronkiewicz-Waltz was a former critic of Giertich's entry. “The marshal cannot change the final court decisions, he should not tell the convicts what to do, because in this way he changes their lawyers and interferes with the competence of the court,” said the former mayor of Warsaw, who is a law professor.
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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 Extraordinary Control and Public Relations Chamber of the Supreme Court annulled the decision of the Speaker of the Seimas regarding the expiration of the mandate of both PiS deputies. 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 that he has sent Vesik and Kaminsky's appeals against the decision to terminate the mandate to the Labor and Social Insurance Chamber of the Supreme Court and is waiting for that chamber's response. Its president, Piotr Prusinowski, said the court would meet on January 10 to hear Kaminski's appeal.
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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