President Duda was not the president of all Poles – many in the motion of protest did not take the nomination from his hands and awarded them state distinctions. Andrzej Duda was president of Law and Justice, his supporters and supporters. And that's how he'll be remembered in history.
The poll conducted by the Pollster investigation Institute in May this year showed that 50% of Poles misjudge his presidency (44 percent well). The studies were conducted before Duda's scandalous statements about the judges and before Bąkiewicz's pardon. Further investigation can further reduce his ratings. According to Prof. Adam Strzembosz, erstwhile first president of the ultimate Court and president of the Court of State, Andrzej Duda violated the Constitution of Poland at least 13 times. Similarly, the constitutionalist prof. Marek Chmaj believes. No Polish president has specified a bad and lewd statistic.
The final pardon of Robert Bąkiewicz is an evident political act directed against the current power and entering the opposition party's action. The context of this decision is that the president pardoned Bąkiewicz, who was sentenced by a final judgement in 2022 for violating the carnality of Catherine Augustinek (Grandmother Kasia) during the 2020 Women's Strike. That sounds enigmatic because, in fact, in a brutal way, the nationalists dragged her down the steps of the church, causing many injuries. Bąkiewicz was sentenced to execute social work, to pay PLN 10 1000 to the victim and to reimbursement of the costs of the trial in the amount of PLN 3 thousand. However, the execution of the punishment was suspended by Minister Ziobro, and on July 10 of that year the decision was repealed by Minister Bodnar. In the end, president Duda gave the sentenced individual the punishment of restrictions on freedom.
This shameful pardon must besides be seen against the background of Bąkiewicz's fresh actions, creating illegal militias and insulting soldiers and soldiers of the Polish Border defender on the western border. Pursuant to Article 26(1) of the Penal Code, which states: “Who insults a public officer or a individual to assist him, during and in connection with the performance of his duties, is subject to fines, fines or imprisonments for a year”, prosecutors may press charges against all who have insulted the SG. Before that, Bąkiewicz was put up or tried to impose respective another prosecutorial charges (e.g. for harm to the monument, for which he is facing 8 years in prison, and for promoting fascism and calling for hatred against national differences), but so far Bąkiewicz is walking on the streets, on the border organizing nationalist patrols scaring drivers, and the prosecutor and the state laughs at the nose.
This shows how inefficient the Polish justice strategy is. past should be a teacher of life and it is simply a pity that it is not so in Poland. The lenient treatment of the Nazis by the Weimar Republic resulted in the establishment of the 3rd Reich. What is the destiny of Poland, in which power cannot be harsh, but according to the law, respond to the whims of the emerging brown wave – I do not know, but I know that indifference and deficiency of consequence frequently lead to crime.
