The State Electoral Commission (PKW) held discussions regarding the 2023 annual financial report of the Law and Justice Party (PiS). Despite a prior Supreme Court (SN) ruling that deemed PiS’s appeal valid, the PKW decided to postpone its decision. Additionally, the PKW has not addressed a letter from Finance Minister Andrzej Domański concerning a resolution on PiS’s electoral committee.
In November of last year, the PKW rejected PiS’s 2023 financial report, citing the financing of the party’s electoral committee during the parliamentary elections in the fall of 2023. At the end of November, PiS appealed the decision to the Supreme Court. Last week, the SN’s Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber ruled in favor of the party’s appeal.
According to legal provisions, when the Supreme Court sides with a party’s appeal against the rejection of its annual financial report, the PKW is required to promptly accept the report.
The financial report for PiS was included on the agenda for Monday’s PKW meeting. However, as PKW spokesperson Marcin Chmielnicki explained, the item was not discussed.
The PKW also did not respond to a letter from Finance Minister Andrzej Domański. The minister had requested clarification regarding what he described as an “internally inconsistent” resolution passed by the PKW in December last year concerning the financial report of PiS’s electoral committee for the 2023 parliamentary elections. “Finding a compromise on this matter is currently challenging, so this point was deferred,” Chmielnicki stated.
Initially, the PKW rejected the financial report of PiS’s electoral committee for the 2023 parliamentary elections. However, in December, it accepted the report in compliance with the Supreme Court’s Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber ruling, which had upheld PiS’s appeal.