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Zbigniew Ziobro, a Minister of Justice with carnivorous ambition

2020-12-03T12:37:26.476Z


PORTRAIT - Well beyond the portfolio of Justice, the zealous involvement of this ultraconservative minister undoubtedly has more to do with his overflowing political ambition.


Zbigniew Ziobro, Polish Minister of Justice, did not go dead hand in a press conference on November 25.

“The majority of Poles are much better savvy and courageous than the leftist elite who tell them that using the veto is bad.

And that the defense of Poland in the face of an illegitimate mechanism, under the pretext of the rule of law, is also something bad. ”

He had already previously pushed Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to impose his "veto" on the conditionality of the rule of law in negotiations on the European budget and the EU's recovery plan.

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Zbigniew Ziobro would have something to be concerned about: his deep reshuffle of the judiciary, which has weakened the independence of the country's judicial institutions, has triggered an infringement procedure of Article 7 by the European Commission for violation of fundamental values.

And conditionality on the rule of law would risk jeopardizing any ambition to bring

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Source: lefigaro

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