Law and Justice parliamentary candidates to face vetting committee

The Law and Justice (PiS) party has appointed a commission to vet all its parliamentary candidates. First to be screened will be the party's leaders, the Kaczynski brothers, one of whom, Lech Kaczynski, is the current Justice Minister. Most of the commission's members will be people with no connection to politics, among them several scientists. The verification process will take the form of a questionnaire that touches on the candidate's possible criminal record, financial status, political past, and greatest successes and failures. The results will be published on the Internet. Following the PiS announcement of its plan, another party, the AWS Social Movement, has decided to form a similar commission, one of whose members will be Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, the famous Polish composer. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5) A.K.