Report on Activities of the Parliamentarian - District No. 22

Speaker of the Sejm Marek Kuchciński

Month of March 2018

 

 Thursday, March 1

 

• 59th Session of the Sejm
• Visit of the Seimas Chairman. For the first time in the 21st century, the Speaker of the Parliament of another country spoke in the Polish Sejm. Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament, touched upon the common history of our countries in the context of the 100th anniversary of their independence. Remembering it, respecting it, we look into the future - he emphasized. - The Baltic states should integrate. We are becoming more active in the field of security (strengthening NATO's eastern flank) and energy (e.g., a common position against the construction of Nord Stream 2). We bet on development of infrastructure, communication and cultural cooperation. We are looking for a recipe to strengthen the EU, we are also guided by the principle "nothing about us without us". - said Marek Kuchciński, Speaker of the Sejm.

 

 

• National Day of Remembrance of the Disclosed Soldiers. - Ceremonies on the occasion of the National Day of Remembrance of the Aged Soldiers are a time of deep reflection on the Polish painful past. It is also an opportunity to recall the heroes of the anti-communist underground. Heroes whose honor was tainted by the regime's propaganda, and whose names were to be erased from the pages of the history of our country forever. The fault of those who were condemned to oblivion was their love of freedom, loyalty to patriotic tradition and Christian principles. The Conclave Soldiers fought unevenly against the totalitarian system and resisted the security apparatus. They did not believe in a quick victory. However, there was a hope that in the future Poland would again be an independent country. After long years of the People's Republic of Poland, history acknowledged them and at the same time demanded the truth. The soldiers of the freedom underground are becoming more and more deeply inscribed in the collective memory of Poles. For many of us they are an unrivalled example of courage and bravery," wrote the Speaker of the Sejm in a letter to the participants of the celebrations.

 

Friday, March 2

• Budapest. Meeting of the Presidents of the Parliaments of the Visegrad Group countries. The meeting focused on the achievements of the Hungarian Presidency of the V4 to date. The main topics of the meeting were the place of the Visegrad four in the EU, including in the face of Brexit, the problem of migration, the disappearance of European values, and joint economic and transport initiatives. - I believe that during all possible international meetings, not only at the level of parliament presidents, we should pay attention to the fact that the basic European values are not only those that derive from the free market principles or certain formal and legal mechanisms that organize our international life, but that the foundation of these values are, coming from the axiological spirit, Christian values - said Marek Kuchciński, Speaker of the Sejm. Statement: https://marekkuchcinski.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/WSPO%CC%81LNE-OS%CC%81WIADCZENIE-Dotycza%CC%A8ce-oficjalnego-spotkania-przewodnicza%CC%A8cych-parlamento%CC%81w-pan%CC%81stw-Grupy-Wyszehradzkiej-.pdf

 

 

• Retrieved from Speaker of the Sejm with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary. The order, upon the request of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, was presented by President János Áder. In his laudation in honour of the Speaker of the Sejm, the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly László Kövér recalled Marek Kuchciński's political path and his great work for the benefit of good relations between Poland and Hungary.

 

Tuesday, March 6

 

• The Bureau of the Sejm
• Senior Convention
• 59th Sitting of the House. On the fourth day of the session, the Sejm amended the Hunting Law. The most important provisions are: ban on the participation of children in hunting, ban on training hunting dogs on live animals and ban on hunting in national parks. The deputies adopted a draft of the so-called Demotion Act, under which it will be possible to deprive the members of the Military Council for National Salvation (WRON), headed by communist generals Wojciech Jaruzelski and Czeslaw Kiszczak, of the rank of officer or non-commissioned officer. The Sejm has passed a presidential bill establishing a National Day of Remembrance for Poles who rescued Jews during World War II. Their memory will be commemorated on March 24th. Members of the National Judicial Council were also elected from among candidates put forward by PiS and Kukiz '15. MPs passed the Business Constitution, dubbed the biggest reform of economic law in 30 years. It is supposed to free Polish entrepreneurship and will be the foundation for all other pro-entrepreneurial activities of the government. The Sejm also passed a resolution on the 50th anniversary of March '68.

 

• Meeting with Speaker of the Senate Stanisław Karczewski, Minister of the Environment Henryk Kowalczyk and Minister of Investment and Development Jerzy Kwieciński

 

Wednesday, March 7

• Meeting with the Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Michał Dworczyk
• Meeting with Zygmunt Berdychowski, Chairman of the Programme Council of the Economic Forum in Krynica
• Meeting with the Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure min. Piotr Naimski

 

Thursday, March 8

Letter from the Speaker of the Sejm on the anniversary of March '68 Letter March '68

 

Saturday, March 10

• The 95th month anniversary of the Smolensk catastrophe. PiS politicians commemorated the victims of Smolensk catastrophe. The ceremony that started with a mass celebrated in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph the Bridegroom was attended by the President of the Law and Justice party Jarosław Kaczyński, marshals of the Sejm and Senate Marek Kuchciński and Stanisław Karczewski, deputy speaker of the Sejm Beata Mazurek, the head of the Ministry of National Defence Mariusz Błaszczak, the minister of internal affairs and administration Joachim Brudziński and the head of the Permanent Committee of the Council of Ministers Jacek Sasin. The head of the subcommittee explaining the catastrophe of 10 April 2010 was also present. Antoni Macierewicz.

 

Sunday, March 11

• Vilnius, Lithuanian Independence Day celebrations. - March 11, 1990, when Lithuanian statehood was restored, is a joyful day for all of us. The return of Lithuania to the group of sovereign states is of great importance to us - said Marek Kuchciński in Vilnius. After the end of the celebrations in Seimas, a ceremony of hoisting the flags of the Baltic States was held at Independence Square. Then, the heads of the parliaments of Lithuania, Poland and Latvia put their signatures under the Open Letter to the Presidents of Parliaments of European countries, opposing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The visit ended with the Holy Mass in the Vilnius Cathedral. The Sejm was also represented by deputies Tadeusz Aziewicz, Tomasz Latos and Jerzy Meysztowicz.

 

Tuesday, March 13

• Rzeszów. XI Forum Europe - Ukraine. During the forum the Speaker said that the most important task for Ukraine on its way towards rapprochement with the EU is the full implementation of reforms arising from the signed AA/DCFTA agreements, which will drive the transformation of the Ukrainian economy. The international community expects that deep reforms of the functioning of the state and the economy will be carried out in Ukraine. At the same time, the success of these reforms will be a response to Russia's attempts to destabilise the situation in Ukraine.

 

• Marshal Marek Kuchciński presented the award to Jerzy Hoffman during the forum. "Carpathian Europe of Common Values" is awarded to outstanding personalities or institutions of the Carpathian countries, which by their activities have contributed, among others, to the promotion of common European values in Central and Eastern Europe.
• Meeting with the Marshall of Podkarpackie Voivodeship Władysław Ortyl

 

Thursday, March 15

• Meeting with Janusz Wojciechowski on ECA inspections concerning Poland

 

Friday, March 16

• Management of the Chancellery of the Sejm

 

Tuesday, March 20

• The Bureau of the Sejm
• Senior Convention
• 60th sitting of the Sejm
• Meeting with MPs from Podkarpacie

 

Wednesday, March 21

• Senior Convention
• Easter meeting of the Law and Justice Club

 

Thursday, March 22

• 60th Sitting of the Diet. They passed ten laws and two resolutions: on the establishment of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Republic of Poland and Georgia and on the commemoration of Henryk Slawik. They elected a supplementary member of the State Tribunal. https://marekkuchcinski.pl/wydarzenia/podsumowanie-60-posiedzenia-sejmu-rp/

 

Friday, March 23

• Meeting with Jan Pastwa
• LIST: The opening of the exhibition "Zegota Action of Underground Polish Opening of the exhibition "Zegota Action of Underground Polish

 

Saturday, March 24

• LIST: National Day of Remembrance for Poles Saving Jews National Day of Remembrance for Poles Saving Jews

 

Sunday, March 25

• LIST: Ceremony celebrating the military oath of the soldiers of 3rd Subcarpathian Brigade of Territorial Defense Ceremony celebrating the military oath of the soldiers of 3rd Subcarpathian Brigade of Territorial Defense

 

Monday, March 26

• The ceremony of presenting the President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński Award to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

 

Tuesday, March 27

• Meeting with experts

 

Wednesday, March 28

• Meeting with Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki
• LIST: Ceremonial signing of the grant contract for the project "Cross-border partnership - a chance for development". Ceremony celebrating the military oath of the soldiers of 3rd Subcarpathian Brigade of Territorial Defense

• PiS Regional Council

 

Thursday, March 29

 Easter meeting with the employees of the Chancellery of the Sejm. - I wish you all the best in your personal lives as well as in your work for the good of Poland. I wish you, as the employees of the Sejm, together with the deputies not to lose sight of this great heritage - said Marek Kuchciński.

 

• Meeting with Vice-Marshal of the Sejm Ryszard Terlecki and Prof. N. Maliszewski