Strasbourg Tribunal Accepts Claim against Polish President
19/05/2006
By
Marcin Sobczyk, www.PolandPress.eu
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg accepted a lawsuit against
the ban of the gay march called the Equality Parade, issued last year by the
Warsaw mayor at the time, now Polish president, Lech Kaczynski. The tribunal
sent questions to the conservative government, which Kaczynski helped
created, about what was the reason for the ban and whether or not the ban
complied with the Polish law. Kaczynski's bans of the gay marches in 2004
and 2005 were annulled by the voivode and later overruled by administrative
courts as illegal and unconstitutional. In May 2005, Kaczynski, at the start
of the election campaign that eventually gave him Poland's presidency, said
that regardless of what the march's organizers would say in official
applications, he would ban gay demonstrations as "public promotion of
homosexuality will not be allowed."
the ban of the gay march called the Equality Parade, issued last year by the
Warsaw mayor at the time, now Polish president, Lech Kaczynski. The tribunal
sent questions to the conservative government, which Kaczynski helped
created, about what was the reason for the ban and whether or not the ban
complied with the Polish law. Kaczynski's bans of the gay marches in 2004
and 2005 were annulled by the voivode and later overruled by administrative
courts as illegal and unconstitutional. In May 2005, Kaczynski, at the start
of the election campaign that eventually gave him Poland's presidency, said
that regardless of what the march's organizers would say in official
applications, he would ban gay demonstrations as "public promotion of
homosexuality will not be allowed."
