The lustration dispute in Poland

Tomas Nemecek applauds the fact that parts of the lustration law have been rejected by the constitutional court: "The lustration has basically been a good thing in central and eastern Europe. It served to draw a clear dividing line between old and new governments and cleansed the state apparatus of corruptible individuals. However, the Kaczynski brothers' Polish law is a pure parody. Luckily for Poland, the Kaczynskis have just watched it suffer a major blow at the hands of the constitutional court... The Kaczynskis stretched the good old law to into the private sphere and even to elected representatives. Many intellectuals - the highly-respected dissident Bronislaw Geremek among them - have rejected the law for this reason... Nonetheless, the Kaczynskis continue to enjoy the support of those who see Geremek as nothing more than a liberal professor and ex-communist. The two brothers' attacks on the former establishment will therefore continue."

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