The Warsaw Town Hall, in the individual of the president of the capital city of Rafał Trzaskowski, did not agree to organise the March 11 of Independence. respective hours after the announcement of this scandalous decision, the Ordo Iuris Institute filed an appeal in court.
According to the authoritative translation of the Warsaw authorities, the decision is due to procedural errors to be committed by representatives of the independency March Association, who are organizers of the patriotic manifestation on 11 November.
"The independency March Society submitted on 28 September 2024 the first announcement of the assembly convened from 21 on 28 October until 1 on 12 November. The organiser then submitted another, practically identical in the content of the notice, which differs only from the first date of the planned activity”, explained the town hall.
The programme of the event provided for a stationary assembly in the Dmowski Roundabout and Defilad Square from 21:00 on 28 October until 14:00 on 11 November. In subsequent notifications the starting dates were changed (from 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 November respectively). The next phase of the assembly would be the march on 11 November from 14:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. on 12 November 2024 on the route: Al. Jerozolimskie, Poniatowski Bridge, Wał Miedzeszyński Street (a noose from the bridge), Szeciński Coast Street, Siwka Street with an ending at the membranes of the National Stadium.
In his refusal, the office indicated that the method of submitting notifications by the Association of independency March does not let to recognise which 1 is actually actual and will be carried out, as in any subsequent applications the organiser did not retreat from the previously submitted notifications.
The City Hall stressed that specified activities of the association are intended solely to get a circumstantial "presence" over another possible convention organizers convened on 11 November 2024 in the centre of Warsaw, and consequently service to restrict constitutional freedom to the organisation of another assemblies on the Day of National Independence.
The decision of Warsaw City Hall triggered an avalanche of comments on platform X.
"The prohibition of the independency March, which is 1 of the largest annually organized public gatherings, is simply a public violation of Article 57 of the Polish Constitution and Article 11(1) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Conventions must not be banned due to the views of citizens. You can see that the concept a democracy fighting She rode in on a full... firecracker. In Europe. In the 21st century,” wrote Counselor Bartosz Lewandowski.
"Rafal Trzaskowski, a well-known lover of leftist censorship and opponent of all manifestations of patriotism and attachment to the Homeland, one more time tries to block the March of Independence. As you can see, the communists have their worthy successors. But the March of independency will pass anyway! Let us show our attachment to Poland and to white and red colours on 11 November,” said Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik, MEP of the Confederation.
“The March of independency must take place. We are dealing with foolish and unlawful actions. Not only does Trzaskowski not grow up to be a candidate for the president of Poland, but he is besides beyond the regulation of Warsaw. Intentionally, deliberately and underhandedly, the Civic Coalition seeks to make social unrest. They want Poles to fight on the streets. That is why they ban the legal assembly. It's a disgusting political calculation. How shallow is it to be a politician to build a temper of hostility between Poles around 11 November? There is no legal basis for refusing to organize the independency March. There is 1 political basis: the foolishness of the president of Warsaw. Even as a Mazovian voivode, I said a year ago: the fresh power will do anything to guarantee that the march does not take place in a peaceful atmosphere. March 2023 was quiet. Now is the time for Tusk, so there must be a quarrel and a burning of hatred," wrote PiS MP Tobias Bocheński.
On Tuesday, lawyer Magdalena Majkowska of the Ordo Iuris Institute informed that "on behalf of the organizers of the independency March, an appeal was lodged against Rafal Trzaskowski's decision to ban this year's March".
“Let us not take distant the anticipation of celebrating Polish independence!” she called.
Source: Interia.pl, X platform
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