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Borrowed from Polish Falandyzacja. Referencing Polish lawyer Lech Falandysz, who in 1994 argued that the president had the right to dismiss two KRRiT members whom he had appointed, which was not explicitly allowed nor prohibited by the law.

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falandization (uncountable)

  1. (Poland, derogatory) A dubious interpretation of the law, developed to increase the president's power.
    • 1996, Daily Report: Eastern Europe, The Service, page 36:
      This is not even Falandization. This is a clear mockery of the law, Professor Falandysz himself said.
    • 1996, Artur Gruszczak, “Establishment and Enforcement of the New Rules: Problems and Possibilities”, in Nato Research Fellowships[1]:
      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.
    • 2002, G. Sanford, Democratic Government in Poland, Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, page 147:
      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.
    • 2019 April 1, Cheng-Yi Huang, “Unenumerated Power and the Rise of Executive Primacy”, in Washington International Law Journal (2), volume 28:
      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.