“Our most important conclusion right now should be to move forward together, united, to regain power—and to hold Mr. Żurek, Mr. Bodnar, Mr. Tusk, and the prosecutors who, on political orders, bring charges they know are unfounded, to account as quickly as possible,” said Dariusz Matecki (Law and Justice, PiS) on TV Republika, referring to the court’s latest decision concerning MP Marcin Romanowski.
The Warsaw Regional Court has lifted the European arrest warrant issued against MP Marcin Romanowski. The former deputy minister of justice said the ruling amounted to an “indictment” of the leadership of the Ministry of Justice and of “the entire governing team.” He added that, in its reasoning, the court described Poland’s political system operating for the past two years as a “crypto-dictatorship,” pointing to habitual, systemic violations of the law. Asked about his plans, Romanowski said his return to Poland from Budapest “is tied to the prior imprisonment of Tusk, Bodnar, Żurek and the entire gang—an organized criminal group that is destroying Poland, among other things by carrying out political persecutions in the Justice Fund case.”
Today, MP Dariusz Matecki appeared on TV Republika and was asked to “put everything plainly” on the matter.
“They should be in prison”
“If we’re putting it plainly, then at this point the prosecutors and the prosecutor general responsible for the unlawful detention of MP Marcin Romanowski should already be in prison. They were fully aware that he enjoys international immunity,” Matecki said.
The opposition politician disagreed with Judge Dariusz Łubowski’s characterization of a “crypto-dictatorship.” “This is not a ‘crypto-dictatorship’; it is simply an authoritarian system moving toward a dictatorship,” Matecki stated.
“We have unlawful detentions of MPs, and the entire country has seen how unlawful actors took over the prosecution service and the media. We have the death of Ms. Barbara Skrzypek, and the person who questioned her now holds sway in the Ministry of Justice and records videos. In my case, it’s not only about detention. While I was in custody, I was denied the removal of cancerous tumors—likely knowing that I would be held there for many, many months,” the PiS MP recalled.
In his view, these situations may have prompted Minister Żurek to decide on random case assignment in the courts—“so that nothing like what happened now in Marcin Romanowski’s case happens again—that a judge does not share the same view as Żurek,” Matecki commented.
“Right now, our most important conclusion should be to move forward together, united, to regain power—and to hold Mr. Żurek, Mr. Bodnar, Mr. Tusk, and the prosecutors who, on political orders, bring charges they know are unfounded, to account as quickly as possible,” the PiS MP said.
Matecki: This is not a democratic state
Matecki recalled the cases of Michał Dworczyk and Zbigniew Ziobro—with a court scheduled on Monday to decide the issue of pre-trial detention in the latter case.
“These are pathological matters that should not occur in a normal, democratic system. At the same time, we have situations such as hiring an external company to assess what officials have done to date—and a million złoty is to be spent on that alone. For missing deadlines in that tender, Mr. Żurek should face charges for failure to fulfill duties. Please recall how fiercely they attacked the ‘Blue Line’ issue when the Justice Fund financed it—for people harmed by crime. Today the ‘Blue Line’ is losing funding due to the ineptitude of Mr. Żurek and Mr. Bodnar. Where are all those outcries now? We have a whole host of such situations,” Dariusz Matecki (PiS) emphasized.
“They were able to spin massive media scandals and storms out of nothing. And here we see Marcin Romanowski, who in no way should have been detained. We cannot feel today that the Polish state is democratic, because at this moment it is not,” the opposition politician concluded.