Zrzeczenie się obywatelstwa polskiego w kontekście konstytucyjnego obowiązku solidarności z innymi

The mutuality of rights and duties of individual and state, resulting from citizenship, is strengthened by constitutional rule of social solidarity which forms one of the bases of Polish political system. Loss of citizenship entails consequences for individual as well as the state, a citizen of which he is. Therefore, waiving of Polish citizenship depends on both the citizen's decision and President's assent, that is supreme representative of state who represents the state in both foreign and domestic relations. The reason why President assents to waiving of citizenship is that the rule of social solidarity says about the relation between the individual and the society and consequently the state which is formed by the society. If citizenship and social solidarity mean definite bonds between the individual and the state – a citizen of which he is – the President, as the supreme representative (the head of state) should assent to break the bonds. There is not complete freedom of President's assent, though. This is so because making the decision, the President should take into account constitutional regulations concerning both the human freedom (his constitutional right to decide about his own life) and social solidarity (constitutional duties resulting from living in a society). Taking the above into consideration, the President ought to make a decision based on conflicted interests carefully balanced (on the one hand particularistic interest of individual and public interest on the other hand).