The president of the Europarliament informed of the punishment for Braun by beginning a four-day Chamber gathering in Strasbourg on Monday. She thus confirmed the information he himself provided on social media on March 17, citing letters from Metsola. Polish MEPs, now independent, formerly owned by the Confederation, will not attend plenary sessions held on average erstwhile a month. This, as the politician himself calculated, means that he will return to the meetings only in the fall.
In February, however, Braun was excluded from the gathering for 2 days and for the same period without a diet due to his message in plenary on LGBTQ people. Metsola stressed on Monday that erstwhile setting the penalty, she took into account "repeated nature of Mr Braun's disregard of standards of conduct". As she added, the Polish politician interrupted a minute of silence during the ceremony commemorating the Holocaust victims on 29 January, caused serious harm to the EP's reputation.
So this time the exclusion from the gathering will last 30 days and for the same period the MEPs will not receive a diet. Metsola informed that the punishment would apply from 10 March ‘without prejudice to’ for Braun's right to vote in plenary.
According to Metsola, the Polish MEPs did not appeal the decision to impose penalties.
Punishment for Grzegorz Braun
Braun disrupted the occasional EP gathering on 29 January devoted to the memory of Holocaust victims. During a minute of silence he shouted respective times “Pray for the victims of the judaic genocide in Gaza”. At the request of the president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsoli was excluded from the gathering and removed from the courtroom in the escort of the parliamentary guard.
By informing on his social media about the penalty, Braun said that his exclusion from the gathering accompanied "certain financial penalties, unconscionable to say". “ The deficiency of remorse and the fact that I am a repeater is speaking against me,” he said.
According to the EP website, the regular diet of the Euro MP is 350 euro. This is simply a lump sum covering accommodation, meals and another expenses at a time erstwhile the Euro MP works in Europarlamenta. The regular allowance shall be a wage allowance.
Braun was born on 17 January 2025. removed by a organization court from the Confederate ranks, As a result, 2 days earlier he announced his start in the presidential election against the party's advice for the candidacy of Sławomir Mentzen.
