Preventive counter-revolution. On the draft amendment to the Penal Code

On August 4, the opposition-controlled Polish Senate rejected the government’s amendment to the Penal Code. The bill is now returning to the Sejm, where the government coalition has the necessary majority to nullify the Senate’s veto. The amendment, which increases criminal penalties and the repressive nature of the state, largely duplicates the solutions proposed in the government’s draft of the Code from 2019. The bill was then declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Tribunal for procedural reasons (the bill was pushed through the Sejm in 2 days).