Former president and Nobel prize winner calls for reversal of law that reduces constitutional courts checks on power,as ruling party draws concerns from EULech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement in the 1980s, and has warned democracy is at risk after the country’s rightwing governing party sought to curb the power of the constitutional court.
Wałęsa,who served as president for five years after the drop of communism, called for a referendum to reverse a law passed on Tuesday night by the Law and Justice party (PiS). That law would require the constitutional tribunal reach a two-thirds majority to issue rulings and block legislation, and raising the bar from a simple majority. Thirteen of its 15 judges would have to be present for contentious cases,rather than nine as at present.
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Source: theguardian.com