{"id":27124,"date":"2024-12-13T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/z6frttwr.ordoiuris.io\/aktualnosc\/rule-of-law-in-poland-double-standards-and-abuse\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:54:51","slug":"rule-of-law-in-poland-double-standards-and-abuse","status":"publish","type":"informacje","link":"https:\/\/ordoiuris.pl\/en\/press-newsdesk\/rule-of-law-in-poland-double-standards-and-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule of Law in Poland: double standards and abuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the first anniversary of Donald Tusk\u2019s third government in Poland. On December 13, 2023, following the Polish parliamentary elections of October 15, 2023, a new Council of Ministers appointed by an alliance consisting of the center-left Civic Coalition, the center-liberal Poland 2050, the agrarian Polish People\u2019s Party, and the Left was appointed. This followed eight years of rule by the more conservative United Right coalition led by Law and Justice (PiS). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The new Polish government headed by Donald Tusk, acting on the basis of ad hoc resolutions passed by the parliamentary majority it controls, informal \u201cguidelines,\u201d and the opinions of friendly lawyers then took numerous unlawful actions over the following ten months that were aimed at physically eliminating the opposition from the public space. These actions have harmed the foundations of the democratic state of law, leading to a revolutionary order of \u201ctransitional justice\u201d and \u201cmilitant democracy,\u201d to which Mr. Tusk and his justice minister, Adam Bodnar, as well as other leaders of the left-liberal ruling coalition, have openly referred<\/a> to justify their most obvious violations of the law. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Last month in Brussels, during a conference organized by Hungary\u2019s Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), Jerzy Kwa\u015bniewski, the chairman of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, took part in a discussion over the rule of law in Poland. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is going on in Poland should raise the alarm among conservatives in other Western liberal democracies, as it is the first time that the concept of \u201cmilitant democracy,\u201d invented as a response to the takeover of Germany by the Nazis through the ballot box, is used by the liberal Left in a post-WWII Western, democratic country to make sure the Right will never be able to come back to power. Transforming a constitutional democracy into a militant democracy is only possible with international support. Until now, Mr. Tusk and his friends have enjoyed such support from Brussels as well as from the Biden administration.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To better understand what has been going on in Poland during this first year of Donald Tusk\u2019s government, we invite you to watch the discussion involving Polish lawyer Jerzy Kwa\u015bniewski and politicians Tobiasz Boche\u0144ski (Law and Justice) and Anna Bry\u0142ka (Konfederacja) that took place last month in Brussels. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, a former vice-president of the European Parliament and a former vice-chair of Donald Tusk\u2019s Civic Platform (PO) party, was also present and took the floor several times to share his opinions and expertise on the subject.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n