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Poland's right wants leftist lawmaker censured over drug use remark
Nov 23, 2011, 13:11 GMT
Warsaw - Poland's right-wing Law and Justice party wants to remove a leftist lawmaker from a parliamentary commission after he admitted to smoking marijuana, local media said on Wednesday.
Robert Biedron of the liberal Palikot's Movement party, who is Poland's first openly gay lawmaker, said during a parliamentary debate about legalising soft drugs: 'I smoke! I smoke!'
Law and Justice said it would submit a request to remove Biedron from the parliamentary committee on justice and human rights, which he chairs.
Biedron later said that he did not smoke marijuana, but that he would publicly say that he uses the drug to spark a debate on the topic.
'And so - yes I smoke marijuana, yes I've had an abortion,' Biedron told broadcaster TVN24 on Tuesday.
The Palikot's Movement party won some 10 per cent support in last month's parliamentary election, running on a platform of ending state subsidies for churches, and legalising marijuana and civil unions for homosexuals.
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