Kompetencje organów Sejmu i Senatu związane z ochroną powagi izb

• Authors: Paweł Malec-Lewandowski

Title variants

EN

The competences of the organs of the Sejm and the Senate related to the protection of the dignity of the chambers

Abstracts

EN

The article concerns the competences of the organs of the Sejm and the Senate related to protecting the dignity of the chambers. These competences were established as a part of a reaction to the course of the so-called “Sejm crisis”, consisting in the occupation, initially, of the Sejm’s rostrum and then the Sejm’s Meeting Room by MPs from opposition parties at the turn of 2016 and 2017. Using the dogmatic method, the publication aims to define the essence of competences, their applicable and planned regulations, and to evaluate these regulations and formulate possible de lege ferenda postulates on the basis of this evaluation. The main thesis of the article includes a negative evaluation of the applicable regulations of competences due to their contradiction with certain provisions of the Constitution, in particular with Art. 2 of the Constitution, i.e. within the framework of the principle of a democratic state ruled by law established in this provision and the resulting, inter alia, principles of decent legislation, including the principle of the specificity of law, as well as Art. 54 sec. 1 in connection with Art. 31 sec. 3 of the Constitution (i.e. the freedom of expression), Art. 11 of the Constitution (i.e. the freedom to establish and freedom of activity of political parties within the scope of the purpose of their activity, which is to influence on state policy by democratic methods) and Art. 32 of the Constitution (i.e. the principle of equality of political parties resulting from the principle of political pluralism). In this context, the most important is the risk of the so-called “chilling effect”. The publication also includes a positive evaluation of a few of the planned regulations of competences, which may allow for the elimination of the above contradictions or ensure a more complete implementation of the objective of competences, including guaranteeing the dignity of the chambers.

Keywords

EN

parliament; competence; protection; dignity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Prawa Publicznego
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 4 (36)
• Pages: 33-58

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Paweł Malec-Lewandowski

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

• https://orcid.org/0000000182937179

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/spp.2021.4.36.2

Biblioteka Nauki

2143117