Sikorski responds to the scandalous words of Duda. The president is besides branded by judges

President Andrzej Duda's message on the judiciary caused a storm in the media. The head of state referred to the punishment of hanging for treason, which faced the harsh reaction of abroad Minister Radosław Sikorski. erstwhile judges besides referred to the case.


On Thursday, Sikorski published an entry on social media, referring to the President's statements. He recalled that Poland is bound by global rules prohibiting the death penalty.

Radosław Sikorski answers the words of Duda about "suspending for treason"

"I kindly inform president Andrzej Duda that, for better or worse, Poland has since 2000 been bound by Protocol No 6 to the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Human Rights, which abolished the death penalty," he wrote.

And he added that the Ministry of abroad Affairs "doesn't supply for the resignation of either convention or protocol".

"Provocation with artificial intelligence"

Former judges besides spoke. Prof. Marek Safjan, erstwhile justice of the EU Court of Justice and erstwhile president of the Constitutional Court, said in an interview with Onet that the words of Andrzej Duda must be treated as "a call for hatred and aggression between individual social groups."

Prof. Andrzej Zoll, erstwhile president of the Constitutional Court, admitted that after proceeding the President's words he thought that it was "a provocation with artificial intelligence, due to the fact that I did not imagine that the president of Poland could say something like this". As he pointed out, "there is besides a criminal threat and this speech of speech, simply scandalous."

Duda's words caused a storm in the media

As we wrote on Temat.pl, Andrzej Duda gave an interview for the Open Conservation, fresh Deal and the Jagiellonian Club. In the interview he spoke, among others, about the situation in the judiciary.

– If this environment does not come to mind, then all these people will should be expelled from the judiciary without the right to rest," said Duda. As he added, "maybe there will yet come a day erstwhile we just gotta do it."

After a while, the president shared his reputation. – late 1 man spoke to me very violently. Do you know why there is so much betrayal and brazenness in Poland? due to the fact that no 1 has been hanged for treason in a long time," said Andrzej Duda. And at the same time, he said that there was fact in those words.

After a wave of critical comments, the president published an entry on the X platform. "I mildly remind you of KO and their media acolytes, who first, for any time ago, spoke of hanging. This is your leader, and today, Prime Minister Donald Tusk. someway you did not shake with outrage at the time," he wrote.



The president referred to the situation from 2021, erstwhile Donald Tusk posted on social media a fragment of Czesław Miłosz's poem, dedicating it to Duda.

Source: Onet