“This bill should not enter into force,” said Marcin Wiązek about the law preventing asylum applications from being filed. The Ombudsman stressed that specified changes could only be made in a state of exceptional or war, and this would force a change in the date of the presidential election. In Graffiti, the lawyer besides pointed out problems with the regulation of law in Poland.
The Ombudsman at the Polsat News studio recalled that he had forwarded his opinion to the Sejm, the legislature and the president on the suspension of asylum applications. In his opinion, this is simply a solution that can only be introduced in a state of war or exceptional.
RPO: ‘The asylum law should not enter into force’
-The suspension of freedom or constitutional rights (...) is in the light of the Polish Constitution only after the emergency. It is not acceptable to introduce laws and regulations of specified extraordinary quasi states," said Marcin Wiązek.
SEE: Law on the regulation of the right to asylum. The Sejm has decided
The RPO recalled that, under modern exile law, any man who seeks refuge in a given country has the right to have his the application was examined. He stressed that this proposal "unnecessaryly needs to be considered positively" but that it could not be rejected in advance under the law.
The prof. said that Poland does not request to comply with the Geneva global Law and Convention on exile Law at the time of the threat of the border, but the solution proposed by the government is not decently formulated.
– Asylum law, like any another constitutional law, can only be restricted and cannot be excluded (...). This bill should not enter into force said the spokesman.
Earlier on Tuesday, during a gathering of the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister urged the president to sign the reprocessed bill as shortly as possible.
– I have here, dear Mr President, you may see, if cameras capture, a regulation of the Council of Ministers concerning this temporary regulation of the right to apply for global protection and, in Polish, in short, suspending the right to apply for asylum. We're waiting for your signature all the time. This regulation is ready. If your signature had even appeared this morning, we would have adopted this regulation right now. said Donald Tusk.
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