Opinia prawna w sprawie wniosku grupy posłów o usunięcie krzyża z sali posiedzeń plenarnych Sejmu RP.
Legal opinion on the request from the group of Deputies, of 9 November 2011, for an order requiring the removal of a Latin the cross from (...)

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this legal opinion, is to examine the proposal submitted to the Speaker of the Sejm on 9 November 2011, by a group of Deputies requesting „issuance of an order requiring the removal of a Latin cross located in the chamber of the Sejm”. In the authors’ view, the presence of a Latin cross in the Chamber of the Sejm does not mean manifestation of proselytism or discrimination and is not inconsistent with any law, especially axiology, rules and norms of the Constitution, the Concordat, the European Convention and the Act on Guarantees of Freedom of Conscience and Religion. A well-established and long-standing compromise, as well as a convention observed by Deputies of several legislatures, consisting in acceptance of the presence of the cross in the Chamber of the Sejm since 1997, is a form of implementation of constitutional values and principles in the Polish parliamentary practice.

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