Warsaw: SiltaNews – News Desk
President Karol Nawrocki has filed a motion with Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal to ban the Polish Communist Party (KPP). The motion argues that the KPP, which was formally registered as a political party in 2002, violates Poland’s constitution by promoting elements of the communist system that ruled the country from 1945 to 1989.
Both the KPP’s objectives and activities, the motion says, include “totalitarian methods and practices of communism” and “assume the use of violence to gain power and influence on state policy.” In 2020, then-Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro filed a similar motion with the Constitutional Tribunal, but the hearing in October of this year was adjourned indefinitely due to Ziobro’s failure to appear.
He is currently in Hungary and is wanted by Polish prosecutors on 26 charges including heading an organised criminal group. In response to Ziobro’s motion, the KPP argued that accusations against the party were unfair.
“The entire argument refers only to historical considerations and attempts to blame the contemporary KPP for all the errors of the previous system, which was not communism, but an attempt to introduce socialism, the positive side of which was social reforms.”
According to the Act on Political Parties, if the Constitutional Tribunal finds that the objectives or activities of a political party are inconsistent with the Constitution, the court will immediately issue a decision to remove the political party from the register.