On Thursday, the Sejm agreed to detain and force Zbigniew Ziobra (PiS) to attend the session of the Pegasus Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry. 241 Members voted in favour, 204 opposed, and no 1 abstained.
In support of the motion for the Sejm to give consent to the detention and forced transportation of Ziobra were all participating Members of KO, Polski2050-TD, PSL-TD, Left and Together. All the PiS, Confederate and Republican voters were against it. – Pursuant to Article 105(5) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, a associate may be detained only with the consent of the Sejm – reminded the talker of the Sejm Simon Holovnia.
Ziobro was summoned 4 times by the Parliamentary Pegasus Investigation Commission, but failed to appear. He's given a medical release twice. Later, the committee of enquiry received an expert opinion from which – as informed by the head of the committee of enquiry Magdalena Sroka (PSL-TD) – it was clear that the erstwhile head of the Ministry of Justice could testify.
The Magpie then announced that Ziobro was to be interrogated in a expression another than the erstwhile witnesses, and that the committee gathering would be shorter. Ziobro replied at the time that “no experts” did not examine him or talk to him.
He then failed to appear twice before the committee of inquiry—October 14 and November 4—and did not justify his absence. On Thursday, in the Seyma Ziobro, he assured that he was ‘lively interested’ to appear before the Pegasus Investigative Committee. However, he recalled the Constitutional Court's ruling, which ruled on 10 September that the scope of the Pegasus investigation committee was incompatible with the Constitution.
– Until the change indicated in the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal is introduced into the resolution [on the appointment of the committee of inquiry] and the correction of mistakes made, no 1 who respects the law in Poland can recognise this pseudo-commission. Your committee is gone, you're a group of disguises. “Ziobro from the parliament’s mouthpiece said to the ruling majority.
On 6 March this year, the Sejm adopted a resolution on the removal of the effects of the 2015-2023 constitutional crisis. Since the adoption of the resolution by the Sejm, the judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal are not published in the diary of Laws.
After Ziobro failed to appear at the committee of enquiry for the 4th time, the committee requested his detention and forced him to be brought to the hearing, for which it is essential to initiate a procedure to waive parliamentary immunity and the consent of the Sejm.
The request was made to lawyer General Adam Bodnar on 8 November, and Bodnar addressed the request to Marshal Holowna on 22 November, who immediately forwarded it to the Rules Committee.
The Parliamentary Rules Committee gave a affirmative opinion on the request to bring Ziobra on Tuesday. president Magpie then said that if the motion was accepted by the Sejm, the deadline for Ziebra's proceeding would be set at the end of January or early February.
The Pegasus Investigative Commission examines the legality, regularity and intent of the activities carried out utilizing this software, inter alia, by the government, peculiar services and police from November 2015 to November 2023. The Commission is besides to find who was liable for buying Pegasus and akin tools for Polish authorities.
On Monday before the committee of inquiry, the erstwhile head of ABW Piotr Pogonowski was brought. This morning Pogonowski was detained by police officers. Upon arriving at the Sejm, he was handed over to the Marshal's Guard, who led him to a committee meeting.
Source: PAP / Marcin Jabłoński
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