PiS MP proposes "groundbreaking solution". It has existed for years

In the Warsaw Białołęka detention center, Rafał Trzaskowski won 75.19 percent of the votes. Let's hope it's less in the Grochów and Służewiec detention centers - 67.67 percent and 68.39 percent of the votes, respectively. In all three cases, the Civic Coalition candidate had enough support to win the elections in the first round.

PiS politicians comment on Trzaskowski's prison record. Buda has an idea

Rafał Trzaskowski's result did not escape the attention of Law and Justice politicians. "Stability in prisons" - stated Sebastian Kaleta, MP in his post on the 10th election. - Have you seen the results in prisons from the first round? - commented MEP Waldemar Buda.

The second MP went a step further. "Listen, I'm simply fed up with this political correctness. We can't have prisoners convicted of the most serious crimes electing our president! I'm in favor of people convicted of the most serious crimes: murderers, rapists, simply not having the right to vote. And what do you think?" Buda suggested in a recording published online.

Some commentators on the recording noted that such a solution is nothing groundbreaking, something that Buda – a legal adviser by profession – should know. "Legal adviser Waldemar Buda discovers the existence of a penal measure of deprivation of public rights. Don't tell him that they already came up with it in the penal code of 1932. Let him read up on it," wrote prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek.

Buda wants to restrict prisoners' voting rights. Such a solution already exists

Konkret24 decided to take a closer look at Buda's postulate. The portal focused not on the restriction of the electoral right that allows one to run in passive elections, but on the restriction of the active electoral right, i.e. the right to vote.

At the portal's request, the postulate was commented on by a criminal law expert, Dr. Witold Zontek from the Jagiellonian University. He drew attention to Article 62, Section 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, which reads: "The right to participate in a referendum and the right to vote shall not be granted to persons who, by a final court decision, are legally incapacitated or deprived of public or electoral rights." - Therefore, the right to vote cannot be restricted by law. This can only be a court decision - he assessed.

The portal reminds us that there is an article in the Penal Code that speaks of a penal measure in the form of depriving a prisoner of active voting rights. Such a decision may be made by the court in the event of sentencing a prisoner to more than 3 years of imprisonment for a crime committed as a result of motivation deserving of particular condemnation, as well as in the event of committing one of the economic crimes listed, for example causing damage to property of significant value.

The first group is more important in relation to the words of the MEP. It includes actions such as those Buda speaks of. - What the MEP postulates is already in place - comments Dr. Witold Zontek.

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