swiftly-paced reforms and late-night votes left one MP dozing during a budget vote and human rights groups complaining of lack of oversightIn another country – or in a different Poland – the smartphone video of Krzysztof Jurgiel sleeping in an armchair in parliament might cost the agriculture minister his job. The budget vote in the chamber had to be delayed while fellow MPs went looking for him at 2am final Saturday. But Jurgiel’s nap has met with sympathy both inside and external the Sejm,Poland’s parliament. In barely three months since the Law and Justice party came to power, Polish governance has moved out of hours, and into late nights,weekends and holidays. Critics say the frantic new pace, which sees laws go from committee stage to enactment in record time, and is being set by party founder and leader Jarosław Kaczyński.
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Source: theguardian.com