Waszczykowski: the report of the Venice Commission is extremely one-sided – Onet.pl

Photo: Attila Kisbenedek / AFP Witold Waszczykowski

Waszykowski said today in Polsat News that the government has approached the Venice Commission with “an open heart on the palm”, inviting her to a Russian. We have discovered you, we have opened all institutions and in exchange we got a very one-sided, the fake report about the situation in Poland, he said.

the attention that he was the initiator of this invitation, said that it is more difficult. – Minister of foreign Affairs performs some teams, he said. The attention to the fact that nine months ago he said that the professionalism of the Venice Commission will make an objective assessment said, “Well, I have not received an objective assessment”.

we Got another report, now, which is a extreme way, even with errors, because it confuses Polish companies, is only one narrative – be it the opposition, or is it the constitutional Court, and we decided that in this case, it does not make sense to continue to engage in dialogue with the European – said Waszczykowski.

he Noted that the Friday plenary session of the Commission, which adopted the opinion on the new law on the constitutional Court, were the representatives of Poland, in particular, the honorary President of the Venice Commission, b. Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka.

- there was No one from the government, because we decided that despite the fact that the government accepted the Commission, the Commission did not include in any of our comments, objections. In this regard, if so biased, one-sided, it can be seen, it is not necessary to engage in dialogue with the Commission – said Waszczykowski.

- moreover, he added that the Venice Commission makes no judgments, it seems that the reviews are not legally binding. More’s the pity of the West, – said the Minister.

Dopytywany, or is it the invitation of the Venice Commission was not a mistake, denied it. – We hoped that if we invited the Commission is odroczymy this debate, which was to collapse on the Russian in the European Parliament. And in some sense a failure, because the Prime Minister could be in PE and a clear understanding of the matter is that after the Venice Commission examines the situation in Poland. But then it turned out that the first report, as now, in this last, extremely wrong, unfair, – said Waszczykowski.

Venice Commission, adopted Friday reviews ws. the July law on the constitutional Court acknowledged that “it does not meet two basic standards of balance of power; independence of the judiciary and the provisions of the CT as the final arbiter on constitutional matters”.

In a published statement, the ITC admitted that the new law was introduced to “fix” after March, it issued its first opinion on the December story of the law of the Tribunal. Among these corrections, referred to “reducing the majority required to issue rulings on both sides until the normal majority”, as well as the absence of a provision “to initiate the provisions of disciplinary responsibility of judges by the President of Poland and the Minister of justice”.

however, reads the note, informing about the content of the opinion, “these and other fixes that are too limited” because “other provisions of the adopted law can significantly delay and complicate the Court’s work, to make sure that it will be ineffective and undermine its independence through the use of excessive legislative and Executive authorities, control over its operation.”

(jb)