nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20190925-232740-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 190925s2019||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20190925-232740-0 doi eng 342 23 Ziółkowski, Michał Author aut Undemocratic but Formally Lawful: The Suspension of the Polish Parliament Ziółkowski, Michał Verfassungsblog 2019-09-25 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier While the attention of many constitutional law scholars has been on the UK Government’s decision to prorogue Parliament and first judicial responses, the Polish Sejm’s plenary sitting has been unexpectedly suspended and postponed until after the general elections of 13 October 2019. The decision has a precedential nature. For the first time since the Polish Constitution entered into force, the ‘old’ Sejm is sitting while the ‘new’ Sejm will be waiting for an opening. Although this decision is formally compliant with the Polish Constitution, it is nonetheless undemocratic and raises some serious questions about the motivation behind this move. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Law parliament Poland Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/undemocratic-but-formally-lawful-the-suspension-of-the-polish-parliament/ raw object