- In accordance with the applicable rules, the directory of hate-motivated crimes includes national, ethnic, racial, spiritual and non-religious affiliation
- The Sejm adopted the fresh in early March, adding age, gender, disability and sexual orientation
- The president stated that the bill was a “limitation not only of freedom of speech to a large extent”, but besides of “putting us into this liberal-left profile of utilizing any fresh language”
- During the interview he besides answered questions about John Paul II and the European Union
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On Wednesday, president Andrzej Duda in an interview with tv Trwam was asked about the late adopted alleged hatred speech bill in parliament.
— First of all, it is very distinctive that these left-left-liberal currents, which shout so loudly about tolerance and so loud about diversity that it should be allowed everywhere, are the first to block the anticipation of speaking," Duda stressed.
— They are the first to ration the language, to specify it strictly only as they want it, and to punish any deviation from the only appropriate political correctness in the language and the only political correctness in the language. Well, nothing more wrong, I never agree with that," said Andrzej Duda. He stressed that the bill was a "limitation not only of freedom of speech to a large extent", but besides of "putting us into this liberal-left profile of utilizing any fresh language".
Andrzej Duda on John Paul II and the European Union
John Paul II's attitude about Poland's presence in the European Union was quoted in the interview. Duda stressed that the Pope "was first and foremost a Democrat, and if he was a actual Democrat, he was besides a proponent of the principle, which is called by lawyers the rule of subsidiarity or subsidiarity."
— This means that as much competence as possible should be as close to a average citizen as possible, and that surely does not mean transferring competences from national countries to a large, huge, supposedly community that the European Union is expected to be. In fact, not for any community, but for the European institutions whose leaders will choose the strongest associate States with their various treatments, which are very obscure from the legal side. So here, of course not, and this cannot be accepted absolutely. National States must first be preserved, the Union should be a Union of National States," said Duda.
The president stressed that "all cultural, identity traditions in national countries should be respected and recognised precisely within the diversity they are talking about and which they are trying to deny absolutely." He recalled the words of John Paul II, erstwhile he “was sending us to the European Union in truth” and said that “we should go there with our values.”
A revision of the alleged hatred speech bill. Here are the details.
In accordance with the applicable regulations, the catalogue of hate-motivated crimes includes national, ethnic, racial, spiritual and non-religious affiliation. The Sejm adopted the fresh in early March, adding age, gender, disability and sexual orientation. The law extends criminal liability by replacing the phrase ‘because of its affiliation’ with the word ‘in relation to belonging’, which will make criminal liability possible for the offences mentioned above besides if the victim is not endowed with a trait which has caused the offender to behave.
Crimes motivated by these prejudices will be punishable by imprisonment.
The Ministry of Justice, which prepared the proposal for an amendment, wrote in its explanatory memorandum that the amendment "will guarantee the fuller implementation of the constitutional prohibition of discrimination on any grounds, as well as the implementation of global recommendations on the standard of protection against hatred speech and hatred crimes". The bill would enter into force 14 days after the announcement.
