The United States and the European Union's top justice official on Tuesday criticized Polish plans for a law that could keep political opponents from holding public office without full legal recourse, and the EU threatened to take measures if it became...
, the former EU Council president. Parliament last Friday already approved the bill, which was proposed by the ruling conservative Law and Justice party as the country heads toward a parliamentary election in the autumn.to reject it.
“The U.S. Government is concerned by the Polish government’s passage of new legislation that could be misused to interfere with Poland’s free and fair elections,” said U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. He added such a law “could be used to block the candidacy of opposition politicians without due process.
He said that what specifically irked him was that “it will be possible to do that as an administrative decision without any judicial review.” Reynders said ahead of a meeting of EU Europe ministers who will assess the state of the rule of law in Hungary and Poland that the EU ”will not hesitate to take measures if it’s needed because it’s impossible to agree on such a system without a real access to justice.”
The Polish law would create a powerful commission, ostensibly meant to investigate Russian influence in Poland.
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