You have a choice.
The Committee on Ethics wants to introduce a fresh sanction. It is intended to be a commitment of a associate to a public apology. However, if you refuse, part of his wage is to be deducted. This proposal was included in the draft amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Sejm discussed at 1 of the committee's last meetings.
At present, the committee can only draw attention, reprimand or reprimand, but has been considering ways to increase its influence on Members who frequently ignore its decisions. The draft of the amendments, drawn up by the Sejm legislators, went to the committee members before the 8 January meeting.
If the task had passed, an MP obliged to apologise in case he did not want to deliver them would most likely have been deprived of 10% of his salary, or PLN 1350.
Failed to civilise the debate
The Committee on Ethics was established in 1997 and was intended to civilise the parliamentary debate, but proved ineffective. Its function in practice is limited to reprimands and reprimands, not to enforcing ethical principles, due to the fact that the deficiency of financial sanctions has caused Members to disregard its decisions.
Interestingly, the presented task is not fresh at all. This is precisely the same task that was already under improvement in 2017 during the regulation of the Law and Justice, but was then stuck in a dead end.
Concerns of the opposition
The opposition considers the fresh thought to be an effort to reduce its voice and a harassment tool, noting that there is 1 typical of each parliamentary club on the committee. Jacek Świat, a PiS MP, expressed his discontent with him:
I am amazed that this thought is coming back to our committee, but I am not surprised. In the form presented, this task allows annihilation of the opposition. The Ethics Committee turned into a prosecutor and the court in 1 could ruin the opposition MP financially, could force him to make humiliating screenings of Stalinist self-criticism.
Confederate associate Konrad Berkowicz stated that specified proceedings posed a serious threat, including to the image of the Sejm. In his opinion, a forced apology, made under the threat of financial punishment, alternatively of willingly, would only be a form of mockery.
It is barely amazing that the 2 parties have expressed their discontent. It is estimated that they are most frequently punished by the Ethics Commission.
