Election Monitoring as a Necessity
The Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT), Maciej Świrski, has announced that the Monitoring Department of KRRiT will oversee the election campaign and the electoral process. As he emphasized, “the objective is to determine whether electoral communication is balanced and whether all participants have equal opportunities.”
He highlighted that the decision to implement media monitoring is directly linked to KRRiT’s official stance, which opposes the European Commission’s announced initiative to organize a so-called roundtable discussion on the presidential elections in Poland. The European Commission (EC) aims to assess whether online platforms comply with the provisions of the Digital Services Act (DSA).
In its official statement, KRRiT declared:
“Any attempt by international institutions to interfere in the electoral process undermines the fundamental principles of democracy and the national sovereignty of a member state.”
This response addresses the recent statements by the European Commission’s Vice President for Technological Security, Henna Virkkunen, who, in an interview with Deutsche Welle, stated that the EC intends to organize a roundtable discussion concerning the elections in Poland.
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It Is Already Happening!
According to Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Brussels and Berlin have already developed a framework for intervening in the democratic electoral processes of EU member states. As an example, he points to the announced roundtable and the European Commission’s activities in Romania, which aimed to challenge the legitimacy of election results.
“This is not merely being considered; this is being prepared. The questioning of the Extraordinary Chamber of the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court itself, and, as of yesterday, even the Constitutional Tribunal by the ECJ’s Advocate General—these are unlawful actions that have resulted in depriving PiS of subsidies that could have been used to support a candidate endorsed by PiS in the elections. This is all happening; it is not hypothetical. The process is already underway! We are witnessing a distorted campaign due to unequal financial conditions, with the government side benefiting from various channels and funds flowing in from abroad,”
Saryusz-Wolski stated, emphasizing that this sets the stage for contesting election results in a manner reminiscent of the Romanian case.
The former MEP believes that a similar strategy could be applied in Poland if the outcome of the presidential elections does not align with the expectations of Brussels’ elites.
“They will claim that an online platform skewed the results, thus compromising electoral fairness and integrity. Just as they currently refuse to recognize Poland’s constitutional bodies, they will declare: ‘We do not recognize these elections; they must be repeated’—implicitly, until the desired outcome is achieved. This is being prepared. The groundwork is being laid for contesting election results following the Romanian model, with various possible pretexts: either a certain institution fails to provide the expected verdict, or it is deemed non-independent, or the Digital Services Act (DSA) is invoked to shift blame, alleging—just as in Romania—that the internet ‘rigged’ the elections. If the winning candidate is not to their liking, they will simply refuse to recognize the results,”
he warned.