On Thursday, the Sejm will deal with the application of Law and Justice for a vote of no confidence in the Minister of Equality of Catherine Kotula. Applicants claim that the minister is preparing the act on gender agreement. – They submit an application for a law that is not there – says Kotula. On Wednesday, the Sejm Commission for Social Policy and Family considered PiS's request.
During the Parliamentary Meeting of the LGBT+ community equality team, at the beginning of January, Katarzyna Kotula said that for several months there has been a “green light” and “political decision” for a government project that would facilitate sex correction in documents. It was decided, however, that the topic would not be taken publicly until the end of the presidential campaign and until the end of the trial related to the Act on partnerships.
At the end of January, a vote of no confidence in Kotula was received. – In our opinion, Minister Katarzyna Kotula threatens children and adolescents. In a secretive way, he prepares a bill on gender reconciliation. This project – as it turned out – will be submitted to the Sejm only when the presidential election campaign ends – emphasized the head of the PiS club Mariusz Błaszczak, informing about the submitted application.
Earlier on Platform X wrote: “There is no consent to introduce regulations that will allow children to mutilate in the name of leftist ideology.”
Kotula: They submit an application for a law that is not there
– This is a row that PiS is trying to call. They submit an application for a law that is not there – commented Katarzyna Kotula. – We talked about it in terms of various work on laws on the rights of LGBT persons, but at the moment such work is absolutely not going on – she added.
On Wednesday evening, the Sejm Social Policy and Family Committee dealt with the application. There were 19 people with a negative opinion on the application submitted by PiS club deputies, 15 were against and one stopped.
– This conclusion is about the presidential election campaign in which your candidate (…) may have a good right sickle, but on average in polls. And this is the moment when PiS plays a harmonious card – said during the meeting of Minister Kotul.
Minister for Equality Katarzyna KotulaRafał Guz/PAP/EPA
PiS for a vote of distrust for Kotula
“The ministerial drawer is already ready a draft act on 'sex arrangement'
They also indicated that Katarzyna Kotula “has no moral qualifications and competences necessary to act as the Minister for Equality.”
During the meeting of the Social Policy and Family Committee justifying PiS's request, MP Anna Milczanowska stated that “for over 400 days Minister Kotula did not prepare any changes that Poles would benefit”.
Milczanowska negatively assessed the effects of Kotula's work, and also accused her of scaring Polish women A register of pregnancy and lies related to the level of your education.
Kotula: This is a conversation about how many lies this conclusion contains
In response to these arguments, Kotula mentioned the effects of the work of its subordinate ministry: Preparation of draft law on partnerships and a law introducing partnerships and a questionnaire for estimating the risk of threat to the child's life or health, which on Wednesday was published in the Journal of Laws.
She also told about plans for the digitization of the blue card and counteracting sex violence. – dealing with the LGBT community always arouses emotions. This is a conversation about how many lies this conclusion contains (PiS – ed.) – this is how Minister Kotul commented after the committee meeting what happened during it.
According to Katarzyna Kotula, her predecessors did not fulfill their tasks in the PiS government. – One of the proxies did not write any law, he never met anyone, did not conduct public consultations, even with representatives of sexual minorities. Everything was razed to the ground. And we are building it again today – said Kotula.
Source of the main photo: Rafał Guz/PAP/EPA