President Andrzej Duda decided – at the request of the wives of Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Vesic – Fr. Initiating a pardon case to both politicians. The President addresses the Prosecutor General with a request to suspend the execution of sentences against Kaminski and Vesik.
Second forgiveness. Kaczynski on the President's decision
Yaroslav Kaczynski was asked about the President's decision in the Seimas. – If this leads to the appropriate result, because everything is unclear in our courts, because under no circumstances should this verdict be given, neither the last nor the first, I am also talking about the decisions of the Labor Chamber of the Supreme Court. This is good – said the president of PiS.
When asked why Andrzej Duda did not immediately decide on a second pardon, Kaczynski answered: – These are the president's questions, not mine.
Kaminski and Vesik were arrested. Protests in Warsaw
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 the Grokhov pre-trial detention center.
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.
Kaminski and Vesik stayed December According to the final verdict, 2023 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.
The Supreme Court issued two contradictory decisions on the same case
PiS politicians do not recognize either the court verdict or the decision by the speaker of the Seimas, Shimon Holovnia, to terminate their parliamentary mandates. They appealed his decision to the Supreme Court, and the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs ruled in their favor. In turn, the Labor Chamber of the Supreme Court rejected Kaminsky's appeal.
After the arrest of PiS politicians, about 300 people protested in front of the presidential palace. The action was also held at the police station, and then at the detention center. There he appeared among others: PiS President Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who spoke about the “unbelievable scandal” and the “first political prisoners since 1989”.
On Thursday, at 16:00, Law and Justice organizes an action in front of the Sejm with the slogan “Protest of free Poles”.
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