Legal opinion concerning the admissibility of the repeated submission to the Deputies’ Ethics Committee of motions to punish a deputy for the same offence Cover Image

Opinia prawna w sprawie dopuszczalności wielokrotnego składania do Komisji Etyki Poselskiej wniosków o ukaranie posła za to samo przewinienie
Legal opinion concerning the admissibility of the repeated submission to the Deputies’ Ethics Committee of motions to punish a deputy for the same offence

Author(s): Piotr Chybalski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Government/Political systems, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Kancelaria Sejmu
Keywords: deputy; mandate; deputies’ ethics; Sejm’s committee; standing orders of the Sejm

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the opinion is to analyse the problem of admissibility of repeated submission to the Deputies’ Ethics Committee of motions to punish a deputy for the same act in breach of the “Principles of Deputies’ Ethics”. The author claims that once the Committee has adopted a resolution stating the violation of the above principles by a deputy, the submission of subsequent motions concerning the same case becomes groundless. This is because the provisions of the law do not give the Deputies’ Ethics Committee the possibility to return to the already-settled case.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 137-142
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English, Polish