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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 08:46 PM Jul 2016

Poland rushes vote to unblock top court before Obama arrives

Source: Associated Press

Poland rushes vote to unblock top court before Obama arrives

Monika Scislowska and Vanessa Gera, Associated Press

Updated 2:20 pm, Thursday, July 7, 2016

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's parliament on Thursday rushed through legislation governing the Constitutional Tribunal, an attempt to address international concerns about the rule of law a day before President Barack Obama and other Western leaders arrive in Warsaw for a NATO summit.

But critics of the right-wing ruling Law and Justice party strongly criticized the legislative changes as little more than cosmetic. They said the moves do almost nothing to ease concerns over the court, which has been paralyzed by the government and made unable to act as a check on its power.

"We are dealing with the end of democracy. Poles will have to be afraid of their state," said Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, a lawmaker with the Modern opposition party.

The tribunal has been the focus of a divisive political battle since November, sparking criticism by the European Union and the United States and leading to a string of street protests in Poland.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Poland-rushes-vote-to-unblock-top-court-before-8345275.php



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Poland rushes vote to unblock top court before Obama arrives (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2016 OP
Over blown hysteria, no? uawchild Jul 2016 #1

uawchild

(2,208 posts)
1. Over blown hysteria, no?
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 08:51 PM
Jul 2016

What's with all this talk about Poland, Hungary, and Turkey lurching to the right and curtailing civil liberties? These stalwart nations are NATO allies and on the frontline confronting the godless, well, Orthodox Christian, hordes to the east! Balderdash and codswallop, I say. Nothing to see here, move along.

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