NEWS
26/11/2025
08:51
- The entire coalition of October 15th, when it was in opposition, including the Left and Marshal Czarzasty, criticized the 'freezer'. Back then, it was bad. So please tell me, why is it suddenly good now? - Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz said on TOK FM, when asked about the 'Marshal's veto' announced by Marshal Włodzimierz Czarzasty.
- The 'freezer,' described even more loudly as a Marshal's veto, is a unilateral decision about which laws democratically elected MPs have the right to vote on, and which laws they do not. This is not in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly states [...] laws are adopted by the parliament, by the Sejm - she continued.
- I'm not saying that the President's bills are good; they are very often very bad bills. Let's reject them with a coalition majority; that's what the Sejm is for. Let's not break the Constitution, because we came to power to defend democracy, so let's apply that democracy - she went on to say.
- There is no right to decide what goes on the agenda; there is an obligation to prepare documents. This is somewhat different. Nowhere in Poland or in the Constitution is it stated that the Marshal of the Sejm has a veto - she added.
- One thing is formulating the agenda, and another is recognizing that one can unilaterally decide, 'this law is bad, we are not debating it.' It's not that it won't be at this Sejm session but will be at a session in two sittings, because that's okay, that's the agenda. However, to come out and say: 'bad law, therefore we will not put it to a vote,' that is something else entirely. That is the 'freezer,' and truly, we all said it was bad. We all criticized PiS for it. Why do we want to return to vile, PiS practices now? Let's not do that - she emphasized.
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