Urgent appeal by the president after the RCN meeting. Calls for the Constitution to be amended

photo. screen YT / president of Poland Andrzej Duda

After the session of the National safety Council, president Andrzej Duda appealed to Parliament and the most crucial people in the state. The leader of Poland demands the quickest changes in the Constitution. The aim is to set a minimum level of yearly defence spending at 4% of the Gross home Product. “This is crucial in the context of Poland and the full Alliance”, the head of state emphasizes.

After the end of the gathering of the National safety Council – with the participation of the President, Prime Minister, organization and President-elect – Andrzej Duda met with journalists during the press briefing. He utilized this chance to make a public appeal to Parliament and the rulings for an urgent revision of the Constitution. The president wants to be certain that no future authorities will decide to reduce defence spending below – about – the current level.

"We want to safe defence spending due to the fact that the arsenal must not only be created but besides maintained. We must have security," Duda stressed. "If there is simply a belief on the political phase that expenditure needs to be reduced, then a consensus is needed as needed to change the constitution," he explained.

Only parliament can change the Constitution in cooperation with the President. The Act amending the Basic Act shall be passed by the Sejm by two-thirds of the votes in the presence of at least half the MPs and the legislature in the presence of at least half the senators.

The president appealed to the marshals of both chambers of the Polish parliament – Szymon Holownia and Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska – and to the government to introduce specified a evidence as shortly as possible.

"I call on all members of our parliament to process as shortly as possible the proposal to amend the Constitution in the form of a provision which will guarantee that Poland spends at least 4% of its GDP on defence and security. This is crucial in the context of Poland and the full Alliance," the president stressed.

Duda stated that he would appeal for increased defence spending not only in Poland, but besides in another countries of the North Atlantic Alliance.

"Today we spend almost 5% of GDP on defence, so as a state we are in favour of raising them and we believe that it is essential to motivate the another members of the alliance," said Andrzej Duda.

Source: polsantews.pl