Deputy Warsaw District Prosecutor Agnieszka Bortkiewicz has filed an application to drop enforcement proceedings against the convicted Law and Justice deputies, Giertych said Thursday.
Giertich: MOTION FOR IMMEDIATE SENTENCE ORDER
A complaint has been filed against his actions, he added: “What a time when a lawyer is fighting with prosecutors to arrest convicts!” – writes a member of the parliament of the civil coalition on the social network.
“The issue of the expiration of the parliamentary mandate of Maciej Vesik has nothing to do with his imprisonment. Parliamentary immunity does not protect him from the execution of the sentence, because his criminal case started before the immunity was granted,” Roman Giertikh writes. in another entry.
“Yesterday, the deadline for the execution of the punishment against former PiS MPs expired. We send a request to the court to immediately order the execution of the sentence. Withholding punishment for the deputies, and harshly ordering its execution against the rest of the convicts. violates the principle of equality,” he added in the next post.
Prosecutor's position
Referring to Prosecutor Bortkiewicz's request, Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office spokesman, Prosecutor Szymon Bana, said that “the Prosecutor's Office has consistently taken the position both before the Constitutional Tribunal and the Supreme Court that mercy action is out of the question.” The constitutional prerogative of the President of the Republic of Poland is inviolable and “not subject to judicial review”.
In a letter sent to the Speaker of the Seimas, President Andrzej Duda stated that as a result of the application of the amnesty law to Kaminski and Vesik in 2015, there is no reason to expire their mandate.
Judge Dalevski's decision
Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber of the Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Speaker of the Seimas, Shimon Holovnia, regarding the expiration of the mandate of MP Maciej Vasik.
Earlier, in connection with the sentencing of the deputies by the court, the speaker of the Seimas, Shimon Holovnia, gave the issue of the expiration of the parliamentary mandate Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wąsik of the Labor and Social Insurance Chamber of the Supreme Court.
The application was submitted to the Audit Chamber of the Supreme Court after Supreme Court Judge Romuald Dalewski, who was supposed to hear Vesic's appeal to the Labor Chamber about the termination of the Sejm Speaker's decision, independently decided to postpone the proceedings.
President of the Labor Chamber of the Supreme Court: the decision is void
– In my opinion, the decision rendered today by Judge-Rapporteur Romuald Dalewski is void, because it was issued by a single collegium, only the Judge-Rapporteur-said the President of the Labor Chamber of the Supreme Court in an interview with Onet. Prof. Piotr Prusinovsky. As he explained, a three-person panel was appointed to consider the case.
The Extraordinary Control Chamber of the Supreme Court could not meet the conditions of independence and impartiality of the European Court.
Wąsik and Kaminski were sentenced
We remind you that in December, the former head of CBA and the former Minister of Internal Affairs, Mariusz Kaminski, and his former deputy, Maciej Wąsik, were sentenced to two years in prison for the so-called Land scandal.
PiS politicians do not recognize the court verdict. Both They appealed to the Supreme Court.
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