nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180207-163150 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180207s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180207-163150 doi eng 342 23 Matczak, Marcin Author aut Reviewing the Holocaust Bill: The Polish President and the Constitutional Tribunal Matczak, Marcin Verfassungsblog 2018-02-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier President Duda decided to sign off the controversial law allowing to punish those who publicly accuse the Polish nation and the Polish state of taking part in the Holocaust and in any war crimes. The law will now come into force – a circumstance which is unlikely to calm the international discussion it has generated. Having decided to sign the law, the President announced that he will file a motion to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal to check its constitutionality. If the president is aware that the law may be unconstitutional and has at his disposal legal tools to check it yet allows it to come into force, he can be accused of constitutional recklessness. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Review Memory Laws Polish Constitutional Tribunal Presidential Veto Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/reviewing-the-holocaust-bill-the-polish-president-and-the-constitutional-tribunal/ raw object