Laws governing criminals in the Sejm to be toughened-up next session

During the next session of the Sejm deputies will consider changing the law to remove deputies or senators from their seat who have been handed criminal convictions with fully binding verdicts. The changes would take two forms - forbidding convicted persons from taking part in elections and the removal from office of anyone against whom criminal charges were proven. The draft is aimed at tightening current legislation so politicians from different parties are expected pass them. "I am fully convinced that we will introduce these prohibitions," said deputy Witold Gintowt-Dziewałtowski. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A6) M.M.