Instrumenty prawne obstrukcji parlamentarnej
- Institution: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego w Warszawie
- Year of publication: 2012
- Source: Show
- Pages: 181-198
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/ppk.2012.03.08
- PDF: ppk/11/ppk1108.pdf
Legal means of filibustering
This article aims at an attempt to analyze the phenomenon of filibustering, with respect to the legal means used by members of parliament to disturb the legislative procedure. The right to such action stems from the essence of the political opposition itself and can be construed as a last resort in the area of expressing objections to the actions of the majority, while not being illegal. Filibustering is a common phenomenon in all of the well-developed, democratic political systems, which do not penalize such action, moreover, in which the parliamentary tradition or the internal provisions of parliamentary statutes create an opportunity to legally disturb the legislative process. Furthermore, this article concerns the matter of reducing the occurrence of