Polish police apprehended an opposition legislator Tuesday, disregarding her parliamentary immunity, after she disrupted a campaign speech by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Polish police briefly detained a lawmaker who interrupted the prime minister's speech to talk about a visa scandal.ruling party has sought to downplay the scandal as it fights for an unprecedented third consecutive term.
Marcin Kierwinski, the secretary general of the Civic Coalition electoral alliance to which the 33-year-old Gajewska belongs, denounced the detention. "These are Belarusian standards," Kierwinski said."The police detained her even though she repeated that she was a member of parliament."Donald Tusk , the main opposition leader, shows police putting her into the van even as people told police that she is a lawmaker.
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