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In the author’s view, active participation in the voting of Members staying outside the Sejm, both at plenary sittings and during the voting taking place at the meetings of Sejm committees, is impossible. The Act on the Exercise of the Mandate of a Deputy or Senator imposes on MPs an obligation to actively participate in the work of the Sejm and the implementation of this obligation requires their attendance at the place of such work.
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The deputy’s oath of office is a solemn declaration taken publicly in the presence of the Sejm and provided to the Senior Marshal by whom a new Member of Parliament (MP) swears to perform his duties to the Nation diligently and conscientiously, to safeguard the sovereignty and interests of the State, to do all within his power for the prosperity of the Homeland and the well-being of its citizens, and to observe the Constitution and other laws of the Republic of Poland. The object of the paper is to exhibit the normative side of the deputy’s oath of office as compared to parliamentary practice of this institution. The analysis of individual legal provisions is combined with the presentation of the operationalization of the given institution in the Polish legal order from the times of the Noble Republic of Poland to nowadays. There are two co-existing aspects of the deputy’s oath of office, namely the legal (normative) aspect and the symbolic (moral, political, religious) one. The legal dimension of the title institution manifests its importance in the fact that taking the oath is an absolute condition of the commencement of the performance of the parliamentary mandate. Following taking the oath of office an MP obtains full rights and responsibilities of the MP status. From the day of the announcement of the results of the elections until the swearing-in a deputy participates only in very limited powers and duties (e.g. formal parliamentary immunity). A refusal to take the oath is in turn deemed as renunciation of the mandate. The text of the oath formulates also the primary principles of the MP’s deontology, that is the ethical requirements governing the deputy’s professional activity in the Sejm. Finally, the given institution reveals its sacral dimension in the capability of taking the oath with the additional sentence “So help me God”. The optional nature of the act of invocation results in both the principle of citizen’s freedom of conscience and religion and the principle of separation of church and state being respected.
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In Polish legislation there is no express prohibition that prevent a Deputy to the Sejm or Senator from holding the position of lay judge in a common court. You cannot say that the constitutional ban on the simultaneous exercise of a parliamentary mandate and performance of judicial functions, as well as the principle of separation of the judicial power automatically mean a prohibition of performance of the function of lay judge by an MP. However, according to the author, it can hardly be accepted as fully compatible with the principle of separation of powers the situation in which an MP is also a lay judge, due to the principle of separation of the judiciary. In the author’s opinion, to gain complete clarity of the situation, explicit prohibition of holding the position of lay judge in a general court by a Deputy or Senator should be contained in the Act – Law on Common Courts.
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Artykuł traktuje o prawnej ocenie blokowania mównicy sejmowej, fotela Marszałka Sejmu oraz plenarnej sali posiedzeń Sejmu, a także o możliwościach postępowania Marszałka Sejmu w celu przywrócenia na niej porządku. Kwestie te omówiono w nim na przykładzie sytuacji powstałej na 33. posiedzeniu Sejmu RP.
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The article contains legal analysis of acts committed by Members of Parliament during the thirty-third session of Sejm of the Republic of Poland in 2016. During that session Members blocked: a podium of Sejm, the Speaker of the Sejm’s armchair and the plenary hall of Sejm.
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