– Even in a sense I realize that protests according to a pattern made available by politicians can be considered by judges as little cool, little legitimate, politicised, but mostly from the point of view of constitution and the rights of voters, they should be respected," says Dr Wojciech Italian, a constitutionalist at the M. Copernicus University in Toruń, TVN24.
Margaret Manowska on electoral protests
Dr. Italy thus commented on the statements of the First president of the ultimate Court of Margaret Manowska. In her opinion, protests are divided into "better and worse". She had previously explained that about 56,000 electoral protests had come to the SN. As "worse" she considered the alleged "gierchewki", i.e. electoral protests, which were based on a model published by MP Roman Giertych.
– I think it was reckless and irresponsible for politicians to set a pattern. due to the fact that they are homogenous protests with the same content, which have already been addressed for joint examination," she said. She explained that the protests themselves did not divide for the better and worse. At least now, for the SN has already fallen a wave of criticism for being disrespectful to post-election protests.
– People have been so fixated on these patterns that, for example, they send us a yellow paper as part of electoral protests, where it says "I support Roman Giertych's protest" and a signature, PESEL," but Manowska said on TVN24. Only about 150 protests made sense.
Constitutionalist on electoral protests: Consider alternatively than judge
Dr. Italy referred to her words. He noted that "every voter has the right to protest, no substance what his motivations are". - It was a little... circumstantial to me. Shocking. All protests are equally crucial according to the Constitution. We should consider them, not measure them," he stressed.
The constitutionalist was besides asked about the alleged list of Dr. Kątek. The algorithm created by this statistic showed that there were any anomalies in the 1400 commissions. Margaret Manowska claims that this is not evidence for the ultimate Court. Dr. Italian confirmed that.
– Our strategy is bottom-up and distributed. He works if a individual notices something and is able to prove it in his protest. An expert can support a bottom-up protest, but cannot replace it," he explained. He added that specified a hypothesis from the expert must be checked on circumstantial committees.
He explained that there is no top-down supervision of the electoral process in Poland, acting on the rule of "we see something happening and we enter".
– There's nothing public. Our strategy is yet based on citizens. As they see that something is wrong, they inactive gotta want to protest – he explained.
He besides added that in his opinion both the approach of the SN to alleged "giereckiów" and the protesting in this way is inappropriate. He considered it "a awakening of distrust.".
