According to press reports, the Seimas may not adopt the state budget on time (until January 29).
PiS's threat that President Andrzej Duda plans to take the budget bill to the Constitutional Tribunal also hangs over the parliamentary majority. All this in response to the deprivation of parliamentary mandates, arrest and detention of Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Vasik. Placement in custody.
Zhukovska on the budget bill: I warn the president about it
The head of the Left Parliamentary Club Anna Maria Zhukovska spoke on Polsat News about this dark scenario of the ruling coalition. “Yesterday, at the elders' convention, we checked all the dates and all this will happen, I assure you, we will meet the deadline for receiving the budget and submitting it to the president,” he said.
– The President can send this budget to the CJEU, the President of the United States or the Constitutional Tribunal. It is not forbidden as long as he has such a fantasy, he said. According to him, “the so-called The decision of the tribunal will not change anything and will not lead to the rejection of the budget.” – Neither the president nor the constitutional tribunal have the right to intervene in this budget, – he claimed.
According to him, “the purpose of the separate budgetary procedure is to ensure that the government alone is responsible for the adoption and implementation of the budget, and no other executive, judicial or legislative body is responsible.” – If the president wants to interfere with the division of power once again, it will be scandalous, I warn you, – said Zhukovska.
The Seimas adjourned. Holavnia explains why
The session of the Seimas, during which the members had to discuss, among other things, the budget act, Marshal Shimon Holonia postponed it until next weekciting a “deep constitutional crisis”.
– The strength of the state should come from wisdom. And wisdom at this moment offers solutions that force us to try to de-escalate the situation in Poland, not to create new fields so that we can fight, fight and create further divisions, which will happen anyway,” Holownia said in a press release at the conference. On Tuesday.
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