Ludwik Dorn, Speaker of the Parliament, has informed heads of parliamentary clubs by letter that he is going to apply to the Constitutional Tribunal to issue its interpretation of the ruling on the lustration act.The speaker of the house stressed that in the opinion of experts from the Parliament Chancellery, there were a number of doubts regarding the contents of the written justification of the ruling on the lustration act, which overruled the Government’s flagship legislation.
Witold Lisicki, the speaker’s spokesman told the Polish Radio Information Agency (IAR) that the doubts were, among other things, in respect of the coherence of the justification.
Ludwik Dorn has informed in a letter that he intends to exercise his authority to apply to the panel of judges, who passed the verdict, to clarify the doubts regarding its contents. Speaker of the parliament assumes that the applicable motion in this respect will be filed before mid July.
"It seems justified both in the context of the finality of the Constitutional Tribunal’s rulings and their enforceability, and the Tribunal’s authority, as its rulings constitute important guidance to the lawmaker", writes Ludwik Dorn.
At the same time, the Speaker of the Parliament has requested the heads of parliamentary clubs that until an interpretation of the Tribunal’s ruling is obtained, MPs refrain from submitting proposals of amendments to the lustration act.
The Lustration law was central to the government’s de-communization program, in which journalists, lawyers and other public persons had to submit declarations that they had never collaborated with communist era secret services. The Constitutional Tribunal ruled that this legislation was indeed unconstitutional.