Dudy's law firm claims that the president has come to uncertainty whether the bill is consistent with the constitutional regulation of law and enshrined in the Constitution of Freedom of Expression. The head of the law firm, Margaret Paprock, said in Polsata that the bill goes besides far and is imprecise.
Under the law, the protection against hatred speech would cover issues specified as national, ethnic, racial, religious, non-religious, age, gender, disability and sexual orientation. hatred crimes that meet the above criteria would be prosecuted ex officio.
Biejat attacks, Mentzen applauds
Duda's decision caused quite a few controversy. Magdalena Biejat, candidate of the Left for president stated that "PiS politicians will not quit hate, it keeps them alive politically".
She wrote on platform X that the president's decision shows "what is more crucial to the PiS camp". "My signature would be under this bill on the day it would be on my desk, and I would retreat the request for control to the TK immediately," she said.
"I called on president Duda to sign this bill. I would like to halt doing politics in Poland on building hatred towards people who are representatives of minorities, towards people who represent people with disabilities, towards the elderly," she said earlier after gathering the President.
Now she wrote that she told Duda "wprost: sign and we will finish doing a policy in Poland on hatred of minorities. Let's argue about economic, global and infrastructure matters, but adequate of the feeling."
Duda didn't listen. On TV, Trwam explained that it was a left-wing bill. "First of all, it is very characteristic that those left-left-liberal currents that shout so loudly about tolerance and shout so loud about diversity that it should be allowed everywhere, are the first to block the anticipation of speaking," he said.
On the another hand, the decision of Duda enjoyed Sławomir Mentzen. "It is good that president Andrzej Duda did not sign the censorship bill, called the hatred speech bill," he wrote on X. "If I become president, I will veto all bill trying to restrict freedom of speech!" he added.
