“It seems that the process of pressuring the Marshal lasted quite a few weeks. There is no doubt that the Prime Minister of the current government was the main one applying pressure. The only question is whether this pressure was recorded or not,” speculated Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, a Member of Parliament from Law and Justice (PiS), on TV Republika.
Attorney Bartosz Lewandowski responded to Szymon Hołownia’s statement on Friday regarding being “encouraged to carry out a coup d’état.” He informed that, on behalf of the aggrieved National Council of the Judiciary (KRS), he had submitted a motion to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw requesting the Marshal of the Sejm be questioned as a witness. Niezależna portal inquired about what actions the Prosecutor’s Office has taken in response to this motion.
As niezalezna.pl has learned, investigators will take preliminary steps by questioning Marshal of the Sejm Szymon Hołownia in the capacity of the notifying party.
The findings of the Niezalezna.pl portal were commented on by Zbigniew Kuźmiuk (PiS MP) on the air of TV Republika.
“The Prosecutor’s Office will question Marshal Szymon Hołownia following a report by attorney Bartosz Lewandowski. The Marshal will be required to testify under the threat of penalty. As I understand it, he will have to reveal everything he knows regarding this matter,”
the politician said.
He reminded viewers that while “the words about a coup have surfaced recently, the Marshal’s first strong declaration that he does not intend to take part in a coup d’état was made on June 11, just after the vote of confidence for Prime Minister Donald Tusk.”
The politician suggested that the course of these conversations may have been recorded:
“It seems that the process of pressuring the Marshal lasted quite a few weeks. There is no doubt that the Prime Minister of the current government was the main one applying pressure. The only question is whether this pressure was recorded or not.”
He continued: “I’m glad the Marshal resisted. It seems to me that in this matter, he was supported by Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Had that not been the case, Tusk would have pursued a different concept, extracting a group of MPs from the Marshal’s parliamentary club and adopting a more forceful stance. I believe both coalition partners jointly replied, ‘No, Prime Minister. We will not walk this path of a coup together.’ The Prime Minister, therefore, had no choice but to abandon the idea.”