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Poland must denounce violence against women, rejecting the Istanbul Convention on Domestic Violence, said a Polish government official. According to the Polish rulers, some provisions of this document contradict the country’s constitutional values.
2011 The Council of Europe Convention on the prevention of violence against women and domestic violence, signed in Istanbul, was ratified by Poland in 2015. Lithuania signed this document in 2013, but it remains one of the six countries of the European Union that has not ratified it.
The Polish ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, as a promoter of traditional family values, declares that Warsaw can withdraw from the treaty because its own laws, more effectively than the European Convention, protect women’s rights.
According to Reuters, Zbigniew Ziobro, the Polish Minister of Justice and leader of the right-wing conservative party Solidarna Polska, will soon issue an official opinion.
“The convention includes a dangerous ideological overlay that goes against Poland’s constitutional order,” said Janusz Kowalski, a member of Solidarna Polska and the country’s deputy treasury minister. According to him, according to the party and the Ministry of Justice, the Istanbul Convention must be denounced in Poland.
Solidarna Polska is a member of PIS.
Thousands of people gathered in Warsaw on Friday night to protest against such government plans. Most women are outraged by the desire to legitimize policies in Poland that justify domestic violence.
Lithuania has not ratified
6 EU countries have not ratified the Istanbul Conventions: Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Many provisions of the Istanbul Convention have already been enacted in Lithuania by other legal acts, but there is still no final decision by parliament.
In Lithuania, discussions on the ratification of this convention arise from time to time, but the decision has not yet reached Seimas. 2018 President Dalia Grybauskaitė presented the convention to Seimas for ratification. And the Women’s Group in Parliament made efforts to include the decision in the Seimas spring session, which ended this year.
Aušrinė Armonaitė, leader of the Freedom Party and member of Seimas VŽ said that ratification of the Istanbul Convention is always on the agenda of the Seimas sessions and, according to the MP, is always on the agenda, but there are constantly opponents they don’t want the topic to be discussed. Seime
The new Seimas, which will meet after the parliamentary elections in the autumn, is likely to ratify the Istanbul Convention in Lithuania. However, it cannot be ruled out that the subject is in the Seimas autumn session and becomes the subject of political discussions before the Seimas elections.
“As in Lithuania, in Poland it is a political game,” said A. Armonaitona, who believes that Poland will not have access until the convention is denounced.
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