Tribunal says late declarations not grounds for dismissal

The Tribunal declared that it is unconstitutional to punish those who did not submit their wealth declarations at all in the same way as those who submitted them late. The Civic Platform politicians who filed a complaint on the existing regulations were triumphant yesterday since the Tribunal ruling means that Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz will probably win the court case against the Mazowieckie voivode and will remain mayor of Warsaw. 765 local government members around the country were late with their wealth declarations. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 4; Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A4) E.B.