ER Editor: As readers know, globalist Donald Tusk got recycled from Polish PM to President of the EU Council, back to Polish PM (allegedly, but we’re really not sure what’s going on), having been a veteran of Polish and EU politics. And so he’s been giving tyrannical grief to the Poles since the end of 2023 in the name of ‘democracy’. (It’s a movie.) One of his moves, after unceremoniously shutting down a public broadcaster and firing its heads, was to reverse a presidential pardon issued legally a few years ago to a government minister and his deputy. Duda was president back then, who issued that pardon, and still is. So Duda (pictured left) has just reversed Tusk’s decision. Tusk, incidentally, had had the two previously pardoned men arrested recently. See —
Polish authorities arrest former interior minister and his deputy
This is a dangerous development in Poland, how long before it happens in the UK?https://t.co/nmsOlV4KHq
— Andrew Bridgen MP (@ABridgen) January 22, 2024
Tusk appeared like a tyrant in reversing a legal presidential pardon from 8 years ago. His doing so just seemed like political revenge on the ‘far right’ PiS (populist) group to which President Duda belongs, so we have no real idea why having to reverse Tusk’s act of tyranny is a particular loss of face for Duda, as per the Politico piece below. Except it has morphed into a public clash.
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The pardon is a significant defeat for the Polish president, who had initially claimed that a previous pardon he issued in 2015 was enough to keep the two PiS lawmakers, Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik, out of jail. Their case has been seized on by PiS partisans, who claimed that the two were political prisoners. (ER: indeed)
“The order on the right of clemency has been issued. The gentlemen are pardoned,” Duda said.
“I urge you to immediately proceed further with the case — to immediately execute the president’s order and immediately release the gentlemen, especially Mariusz Kamiński in view of his health,” the president added.
The Polish Supreme Court ruled that Duda’s 2015 pardon was invalid as it was issued before Kamiński and Wąsik’s final conviction, and kicked the case back to a lower court, which convicted them in December and sentenced them to two years in prison. They were found guilty of using fake documents in a 2007 attempt to incriminate the coalition allies of Law and Justice — leading to the collapse of the short-lived government.
The two ignored the verdict and took refuge in Duda’s presidential palace in central Warsaw, where they were arrested on January 9. They subsequently both went on a hunger strike.
Kamiński was briefly taken to hospital on Monday because his blood sugar level was dangerously low, Polish media reported.
Pro-PiS crowds have spend days demonstrating outside the prisons where the two were being held.
However, there is little public support for the effort to free them early. A survey for the Super Express newspaper found that 60 percent of those polled wanted them to stay behind bars. (ER: Whose poll is this?)
The justice ministry also recommended that they should stay in prison in an opinion sent earlier Tuesday to Duda.
But Duda had been under growing pressure from PiS party leaders to free them. In his statement, he called their conviction and imprisonment a “shame.”
His political opponents were quick to react.
“The president stands against the law and the state, and on the side of criminals who used the [secret] services to persecute opponents,” said Marcin Bosacki, an MP with Civic Coalition, one of the four parties making up the new government.
Although the presidential pardon eliminates the penalty, it does not cancel their conviction. The Polish constitution bars people with a conviction from serving in parliament, and the speaker of parliament, Szymon Hołownia, has already declared that their seats are vacant.
However, not all PiS members see it that way.
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