Dworczyk: We're Using a Law Passed During Civic Platform's Majority Rule for Epidemic States

14/03/2020

20:47

Dworczyk:

We're Using a Law Passed During Civic Platform's Majority Rule for Epidemic States

Michał Olech

I once heard that voice. I thought it was an isolated opinion. From what you, the editor, are saying, as I understand it, more opposition politicians are putting forward this thesis. It's a shame, because after a few days where we were actually discussing matters substantively, we're returning to politics again. I can only say this. There are three states of emergency, according to the Constitution. A state of natural disaster, a state of emergency, and a state of war. Each of these states is precisely described, not only in the Constitution but also in laws, under what circumstances it should be introduced and what its consequences are. A common element for each of these states of emergency is the restriction of civil rights. These are very far-reaching tools, but in the situation we find ourselves in, we are using a law which – if I remember correctly, and again I refer to my memory, but I am 90% convinced – was passed when the parliamentary majority was held by Civic Platform. It is precisely a law that creates the possibility of introducing a state of epidemic threat or a state of epidemic – stated Michał Dworczyk in an interview with Piotr Marciniak on "Fakty po faktach" TVN24. - Therefore, we are using these tools that have been created and have been functioning for years. Now, of course, one can accuse the government that everything it does, it does with its own particular political benefits in mind, or with some impure intentions. The only question is where such thinking will lead us. I can say, as a person who from this very practical side tries to coordinate the administration's actions in the fight against the coronavirus every day, that we are using the tools and working to the best of our ability, and we are using the tools that, in our opinion, are currently the most adequate for this situation – continued the Head of the Prime Minister's Chancellery.

Michał Olech

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