The two politicians were arrested last week after being sentenced by a Warsaw court to two years behind bars for abuse of power.
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00:00 The Polish opposition party disrupted parliamentary proceedings on Tuesday,
00:04 calling for the immediate release of two former government officials,
00:07 Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik.
00:10 Last week, the two MPs were arrested at the presidential palace after a Warsaw court
00:16 sentenced them to two years behind bars for abuse of power for actions taken in 2007.
00:22 The Polish president, Andrzej Duda, initially pardoned them in 2015 for the same crimes.
00:28 However, the experts have questioned the validity of the act.
00:31 As it emerged last Thursday, he had launched a new process to pardon the dead.