President Duda directed To the Constitutional Court, the amendment of the Criminal Code of March 6th this year, the alleged "Speak of Hate" Act, which was imposed by the left-wing liberal government of Donald Tusk, contains an extended catalogue of grounds for crimes motivated by prejudice. Its introduction will mean censorship of criticisms of sodomites and neo-lyssenists.
Andrzej Duda addressed the Act on “Speak of Hate” to the Constitutional Court. In his motion, he wrote that he accused the bill of incompatibility with the Constitution. These are fresh grounds for discrimination in the form of age, sex or sexual orientation with the listed articles of the Constitution. According to the President, the bill lacks "axiological cohesion". The contested provisions, in his view, besides rise doubts as regards the implementation of the freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 54(1) of the Constitution.
A catalogue of grounds for hate-motivated crimes in a revised The penal code includes national, ethnic, racial, religious, non-denominationality, age, gender, disability and sexual orientation. hatred crimes against these qualities would be prosecuted ex officio without having to file a private indictment and subject to imprisonment.
Wednesday, Andrzej Duda was asked about the bill in an interview with tv Trwam. – First of all, it is very characteristic that these left-left-liberal currents that shout so loudly about tolerance and shout so loud about diversity that it should be allowed everywhere, are the first to block the anticipation of speaking – he said.
In practice, the bill is intended to usage the Tusk Government as an excuse to censor the net and shut the mouth of political opponents on topics specified as sodomites, genderism and immigrants.
According to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 1997, before signing the Act, the president may apply to the Constitutional Court for a proposal regarding its compatibility with the content of the Basic Act. If the Court considers it correct, the president may not refuse to sign it. On the another hand, the president refuses to sign a bill that the Constitutional Tribunal found incompatible with.
The full content of the arguments utilized by Andrzej Duda in the application to the Constitutional Tribunal, is located on the website of the Chancellery of the president of Poland.
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