Andrzej Duda addressed the Constitutional Tribunal in the preventive control mode of the revision of the Criminal Code adopted by the Sejm on 6 March, which extended the catalogue of hatred crimes by 4 fresh conditions: age, gender, disability and sexual orientation. According to the President's law firm's message of reasons for the TK, According to Duda, there are doubts as to whether the law is in line with the constitutional rule of legal clarity.
Wave of comments after decision by Andrzej Duda
The decision met with many comments. It was criticized mainly by the politicians of the ruling coalition. — president Andrzej Duda may have been the president who said halt hating. He did not do this – she commented for PAP Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Monika Wielichowska With KO.
That's what she said. Magdalena Biejat, Left candidate for president. She wrote on platform X that the President's decision shows "what is more crucial to the PiS camp". She assessed that PiS politicians would not quit "the heist, it keeps them alive politically". She added that "my signature would be under this law on the day that it would end up on my desk, and I would retreat the request for control to the TK immediately".
‘A. Duda fell in love with the hatred speech so much that he blocked the bill to fight this barbarous thing. Now you can see why Poland needs a president who is just decent,” said the Minister for Reconstruction after the flood Marcin Kierwinski.
"Duda directs a fresh of the Penal Code against hatred speech to TK PiS. No wonder. If it wasn't for speech and hatred propaganda A. Duda could not even dream of a second term," stated the president of the civilian Coalition Parliamentary Club Zbigniew Konwiński.
"What you gotta have in your head to not sign the hatred speech bill. Duda works in the interests of PiS and Nawrocki, due to the fact that hatred and hatred speech are their primary asset," wrote the Minister of athletics Sławomir Nitras.
Other opinions include PiS and Confederacy politicians. "It is very good that president Andrzej Duda did not sign the censorship bill, called the hatred speech bill. If I become president, I will veto all bill trying to restrict freedom of speech!” wrote the Confederate candidate for president. Sławomir Mentzen.
"The Act that gags freedom of speech — about the fight against the alleged hatred speech — addressed in preventive control by president Andrzej Duda to the TK. It is an unconstitutional bill, and for pluralism and freedom of public debate in Poland highly dangerous. Let us remember that Trzaskowski would have signed without blinking his eye, so halt Trzaskowski" - wrote PiS Bartłomiej Wróblewski.
