Prime Minister Donald Tusk with an appeal to President Andrzej Duda for a signature under the asylum regulation

Prime Minister Donald Tusk appealed to President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday to sign a regulation suspending the right to submit asylum applications. – We are waiting for your signature all the time. This regulation is ready. If your signature appeared even this morning, we would now adopt this regulation – he said at the government meeting.

During the government meeting, Prime Minister Donald Tusk turned to the president Andrzej Duda. – Dear President, maybe you will see, if the cameras capture, the Regulation of the Council of Ministers regarding the temporary limitation of the right to submit an application for international protection. In short, suspending the right to submit asylum applications – said Tusk, showing the document.

– We are waiting for your signature all the time. This regulation is ready. If your signature appeared even this morning, we would now adopt this regulation. Why is it so important? We were on the border recently, but you don't have to be there to know that every day our Border Guard officers, the police, soldiers constantly expose their health and life, protecting the boundaries against illegal attempts to cross – he added.

Tusk said that “aggression from smuggling people is growing.” – One of the greatest incentives for organizing smuggling through the eastern border is the possibility of immediately submitting an asylum application – explained the head of government. – They (people illegally crossing the border – ed.) They are already happy then, because submitting a request for asylum is enough that this is a registered person and she is already attributed to Poland – said Tusk.

He also turned to the opposition. – you shout so much about the fact that Germany Will anyone else return migrants to us? The best method that this threat is not at all is not to register asylum conclusions – he added.

What the act assumes

The Act assumes that the restriction of the right to submit an application for international protection may be introduced by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers at the request of the Minister of the Interior and Administration. Boss Of the Ministry of Interior and Administration He will have to inform the Sejm Administration and Interior Commission about the submission of an application limiting the right to asylum.

Its introduction should take into account “the need to prevent destabilization of the internal situation” in the country and aim to “limit the slightest possible limitation of the rights of foreigners intending to apply for international protection.”