falandization

alternative Falandization

1. derogatoryuncountablePolandA dubious interpretation of the law, developed to increase the president's power.

   This is not even Falandization. This is a clear mockery of the law, Professor Falandysz himself said.

   1996, Daily Report: Eastern Europe, The Service, page 36

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   If the "falandization" had anyway meant obedience to the law, notwithstanding an unrestrained tendency to stretch it, the "jaskiernization" (named by the Minister of Justice in the leftist government of Oleksy, Jerzy Jaskiernia) meant politically biased justice involved in the fulfillment of partisan objectives and interests as well as in the defense of members of the ruling post-communist party who have broken the law.

   1996, Artur Gruszczak, “Establishment and Enforcement of the New Rules: Problems and Possibilities”, in Nato Research Fellowships

   Wałęsa's legal adviser Lech Falandysz, who was credited with the falandization principle that legal justification could always be found in the murk of the Little Constitution for all presidential actions, left the chancellery acrimoniously in March 1995.

   2002, G. Sanford, Democratic Government in Poland, Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, page 147

   The outcome appears to be that the chairperson is the real political leader with the aid of unenumerated powers stemming from the chief executive. The unenumerated powers in Poland may be illustrated by the act of falandization, or twisted interpretation, by the presidents in Poland.

   2019 April 1, Cheng-Yi Huang, “Unenumerated Power and the Rise of Executive Primacy”, in Washington International Law Journal (2), volume 28

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of falandization.