The president hits the ruling. ‘Levaco-liberal currents’

President Andrzej Duda gave an interview with tv Trwam, in which he spoke about the function of Pope-Polak in the life of our nation and the current affairs in the country. 1 of them was passed by the legislature alleged hatred speech bill. The head of our state, erstwhile asked whether he would decide to sign the fresh regulations, made it clear that he did not agree with the actions of the rulers.

– These left-, left-liberal currents are the first to rationalize language, to specify it strictly, only as they want it., and at the same time punish any deviation from, in their opinion, the only correct political correctness in the language and correctness of the only political 1 in the language. Nothing more wrong, said the President.

The hatred speech bill. President: Trying to push us into a liberal-left profile

According to Andrzej Duda, the hatred speech bill aims not only to reduce freedom of speech to a large extent, but in fact its total collection.

– This is an effort to push us into this liberal-left profile of utilizing any new-word completewhere quite a few fresh words appear," he explained.

Polish leader did not shun criticism of the current government, going even further and accusing Donald Tusk's cabinet of “a lie”, and besides assessing that the current situation in Poland, especially the media, in many aspects “recollects old times”.

– Denying events that have occurred and denying attitudes that have clearly occurred. You must definitely defend yourself against it and I hope the public can defend themselves from this at the urns., expressing his real expectations," he said.

Andrzej Duda defends Father Rydzyk: These works are fought and will be fought

Andrzej Duda besides faced the question of "regular attacks on the Church" and "refuting its authority". According to the President, their goal is to "an effort to impose a fresh model of the world, a de facto fresh model of man".

– Deprived of the conventional values of the past, on which the improvement of civilization, especially Western civilization, has been based for over 2000 years. This is inactive an effort to accomplish this change, by all means possible – he explained.

At the same time, politicians themselves spoke about initiatives led by the founder of tv Trwam Fr Tadeusz Rydzyk.

– If we are talking about any kind of public media mission, it is the media that is organised by the fathers of the redemptorists that are realising this mission. So these works are fought. They're being fought and they'll be fought, let's face it. He said.

What changes the hatred speech bill?

The Amendment of the Criminal Code, called the hatred speech Act, introduces rules governing the fight against hatred speech and importantly expands the catalogue of protected features, now including age, gender, disability and sexual orientation (except for previously protected: national, ethnic, racial, spiritual and non-denominational).

This means that hate crimes against these qualities will be prosecuted ex officio, without having to file a private indictment.

According to the laws adopted: for the usage of force or illegal threats from motives of hatred, there will be up to 5 years imprisonment, for incitement to hatred – up to 3 years, for insulting – up to 2 years in prison.

This is simply a consequence to global recommendations on the prevention of hatred crimes. The Justice hotel states that although their number has fallen in fresh years, 761 cases of specified acts were inactive reported in 2024.