On Tuesday, the PiS MPs submitted another draft law on the cessation of prosecution for certain actions related to the organisation of alleged envelope elections. This is the second approach of the ruling organization to the scandalous project, ridiculed by the commentators as “the impunity plus”.
At the beginning of November, the Sejm was to deal with the draft of PiS MPs on the legality of the transmission by the local authorities of the data of the voters of the Polish Post before the presidential elections ordered for 10 May 2020. Under the influence of widespread criticism, talker Elżbieta Witek decided to remove him from the agenda.
The main presumption of the first task was to prevent the convicting of self-governments who provided data to voters acted without a legal basis, so they clearly broke the law. In the face of specified local authorities, notices were submitted to the prosecutors. In March 2022 the first conviction was handed down in 1 of the cases initiated in this regard. The territory Court of Wągrowiec considered that the mayor of Wapno Municipality had exceeded the powers and acted without a legal basis, providing the data of the voters.
Before The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw concluded that the decision of Prime Minister Morawiecki of April 2020, obliging the Polish Post to prepare presidential elections in correspondence in May, grossly violated the law. The same court besides stated that then the Minister of Digitalization Marek Zagórski had no right to decide to transfer Polish Post from the Polish PESEL database. akin conclusions have been drawn by the advanced Control Board. In a follow-up speech of May 2021. NIK stated that the organisation of the May 2020 elections was unlawful and that the institutions active in these "elections" had repeatedly broken the law.
The latest draft "Act of Abuse of Laws for Certain Actions relating to the Organization of Presidential Elections, ordered for May 10, 2020" assumes that no proceedings are initiated and that the "Acts committed at the time of the outbreak" proceedings initiated, consisting in the transfer to the postal operator of the list of voters in connection with the ordered elections to the office of President, are terminated.
Another provision of the draft law provides that criminal measures, compensatory measures and measures relating to the subjection of the offender, which are not full or partially executed, are not enforceable. Nor shall the costs of the proceedings which have not been paid in full or in part shall be enforceable. "The warrants for these acts are erased by law, and the evidence of conviction and conditional remission of proceedings for these acts is removed from the National Criminal Registry," says the project. The draft besides states that the costs and charges associated with the implementation of this law are borne by the State Treasury.
We are so faced with another insolent effort to avoid work for ostentatious violation of the law, which was committed by the Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the highest government officials, and from their instigation by many local governments. As we can see, members of the organization named, nomen omen "Law and Justice", do not hesitate to demolish the Polish legal strategy in the hope of avoiding work for apparent and ostentatious violations. It remains to be hoped that this apparent hucpa will have a negative impact on the polls of the ruling organization and velocity up its removal from power.
Przemysław Piasta
