Domestic violence convention approval postponed?
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The Senate of Poland was scheduled to vote on adopting of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence on Thursday. Instead, it will vote on an amendment proposed by Jan Rulewski to postpone the introduction of the convention to January 2016. If the amendment is approved, the convention will be voted again by the Sejm. The Lower Chamber of the Parliament, contrary to the Senate, has no obligation to proceed the act within next 30 days, therefore the convention may be in limbo for next few months. It is argued that Rulewski's amendment draft is a favor made to the president, who will be saved from signing the controversial act before the presidential elections.
The Sejm voted on February 6 in favor of adopting the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating violence. According the EU official website “the convention opens the path for creating a legal framework at the pan-European level to protect women against all forms of violence, and prevent, prosecute and eliminate violence against women and domestic violence."
