Rywingate ballot balls-up sees some deputies voting for the wrong thing

Experts asked by the Sejm Presidium for their opinion on the report by the 'Rywingate' Commission yesterday decided that another vote on the report should take place. Their opinion was nearly unanimous, Sejm Speaker Józef Oleksy revealed. The basis for their opinion was Oleksy's statement given immediately before the vote, according to which there was to be a vote on one of the minority party's motions and only then was it to be followed by a full vote on the Commission's report. "The great majority of deputies thought they were selecting one of the six reports for another [exposure] 'tour.' They would have voted differently had they known it was the a vote on the final version of the report," said Stanisław Gebethner, an expert in constitutional law. Consequently, according to the experts, the document that had already been accepted by deputies was not actually the Sejm's final report. (Rzeczpospolita, pp.A1, A4) A.F.