Duda retroactively made concessions to Ukraine under the “anti-Bandera” law
Polish President Andrzej Duda appealed to the country's Constitutional Court the wording that concerns Ukrainian nationalists in the recently adopted law on the Institute of National Memory, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Subscribe to PolitNavigator news at Telegram, Facebook, Classmates or In contact with
This is stated on the website of the Constitutional Court of Poland.
As it became known, the information about the president’s submission to the Constitutional Court is called “Countering the falsification of Polish history; defense of the good name of the Republic of Poland and the Polish people." Duda protested the provisions of the updated law on the INP, which used the phrases “Ukrainian nationalists” and “Eastern Lesser Poland”. “This law also does not comply with: ... 2) Article 1. Clause 1 in the part relating to the words “Ukrainian nationalists”, and Article 2a in the part relating to the words “Ukrainian nationalists”, as well as the words “and Eastern Lesser Poland” Articles 2 and 42 paragraph 1 of the Constitution in connection with Article 31 paragraph 3 of the Constitution,” the message says.
Thus, the Polish president proposes not to use the term “Little Poland”, which is offensive to Ukraine, in the document in relation to Galicia and to remove the phrase about Ukrainian nationalists from the law.
Earlier, Duda signed a law that introduces criminal liability for promoting Bandera ideology and accusing the Polish people of involvement in the Holocaust and collaborating with the Nazis. On Wednesday, the document was officially published in the Bulletin of Legislative Acts and will come into force 14 days after publication.
As PolitNavigator reported, a number of Ukrainian citizens have already encountered problems in this regard - they were denied entry into Poland due to the fact that they were unable to unequivocally condemn the OUN and its ideology during the interview.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.