“I hope that the Voivodeship Administrative Court will assess the conduct of the public administration authorities in this case,” said attorney Bartosz Lewandowski, commenting on the decision to “invalidate” Zbigniew Ziobro’s passport.
“Zbigniew Z.’s passport has been invalidated by a decision of the Masovian Voivode, Mariusz Frankowski, at the request of the National Prosecutor’s Office,” announced Marcin Kierwiński on the X platform. In doing so, the head of the Ministry of the Interior embarrassed himself by referring to “Zbigniew Z.”
Why abbreviate the surname? The former minister of justice has so far not heard any charges and has not been formally accused of anything.
As the politician’s legal representative, attorney Adam Gomoła, pointed out, the decision to “invalidate” the passport was taken in flagrant violation of the provisions of the Code of Administrative Procedure.
Attorney Bartosz Lewandowski уточified that the issue concerns Article 100(1) of the Code of Administrative Procedure:
“A condition for a decision to produce legal effects is that it be served, which most certainly did not occur.”
He alleged that taking such a decision demonstrated that “one can practically fail to observe any standards of a democratic state governed by the rule of law.”
“Conducting proceedings without serving correspondence in the proper form and to the correct addresses, failing to examine the party’s motions, publicly declaring the outcome of the proceedings before analyzing the evidence, and… ‘trumpeting success’ even though the administrative decision is not even in legal circulation,” the lawyer enumerated.
“In the era of ‘militant democracy,’ the content of legal provisions no longer matters, but I hope that the Voivodeship Administrative Court will assess the conduct of the public administration authorities in this case, which is an example of the instrumental use of law for specific political purposes,” he wrote.