CPAC’s decision is a “great honour…with enormous significance for the future of Polish politics”, says an advisor to President Duda.

CPAC’s decision is a “great honour…with enormous significance for the future of Polish politics”, says an advisor to President Duda.
The ruling coalition argues the measure is necessary to ensure there will be no legal doubts over the election result.
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The president’s staff had insisted in recent weeks that he would not issue another pardon.
The pair are now due to begin a two-year jail term.
Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik were given two-year prison sentences in an abuse-of-power case.
The two former PiS ministers were last month given prison sentences and banned from public office.
The unprecedented decision will further complicate an already complex and contested legal situation.
“There cannot be consent in view of the flagrant violation of the constitution and the principles of a democratic state of law,” said Duda.
The pair was handed prison sentences yesterday but President Duda insists his decision to pardon them still stands.
Former interior Mariusz Kamiński and his deputy Maciej Wąsik, have been handed two-year prison sentences.
It was the first time the conservative president was called on to approve legislation passed under the new, more liberal government.
“We come from different political camps but I am open to cooperation,” Duda told the new government.
The new cabinet is expected to last only two weeks at most before the opposition form a permanent government.
The opposition’s new parliamentary majority elected a speaker but will have to wait longer to form a government.