Constitutional Tribunal: abolishing Warsaw District Councils is legal

The Constitutional Tribunal has decided that the Warsaw bill, which will amend the way the city council administration is run does not break the Constitution. Some members of local councils claimed the move to replace district councils with a centralized city-wide one violates the Constitutional regulation of decentralizing public power. In their opinion, it was not necessary to take such a radical step in order to improve management of the city. According to Michal Kulesza, who was acting on behalf of the local councils, the bill was accepted without consulting local communities. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, C1; www.rmf.pl) M.M.