President asks top court to rule on asset disclosures of govt members' families

Polish President Andrzej Duda has referred a law that obliges senior public officers to disclose assets owned by their immediate family to the country's Constitutional Court, Presidential spokesperson Blazej Spychalski told PAP on Monday. "The president fully supports and agrees with the concept of the law, but the matter is so important that it should leave no doubts, especially legal ones, therefore the president decided to refer the law to the Constitutional Court..." Spychalski said. The law, which was passed in September, would cover the prime minister, ministers, parliamentarians and European parliamentarians and heads of state institutions, requiring them to disclose the assets owned by members of their family living in the same household.