PiS posts articles on European news sites

The Law and Justice (PiS) delegation of the ECR group posted a statement on Friday morning on various European political websites such as Politico and EUobserver in relation to the current situation in Poland. The statement comes in advance of the debate on Poland that will occur in the European Parliament next week. In the statement, the group asserts that European values and freedom of expression are not being violated by the new government. It declares that its recently-passed reforms are in line with the Polish constitution, while adding that the bill it passed to amend the Constitutional Court was a necessary move to counter unconstitutional measures made by the previous government; it notes that the "controversy" , stirred up by media in Poland and Brussels,  "is practically over". Furthermore, the group accuses the previous government, led by Civic Platform (PO), as being more disrespectful of values of freedom of expression, listing cases of surveillance and penal repression against right-wing journalists during its rule.  It also stresses that the reforms implemented by the government, as unpopular as they may be in Brussels, are simply the outcomes the Polish people desired when they elected PiS as the majority party. They also intimated that these reforms have led to a better situation in the country than further West, citing Poland's record of no violent events or danger to women as evidence to this claim.