One of the initiators of the politicized “Free Courts” campaign, Michał Wawrykiewicz, admitted that Law and Justice (PiS) spent funds from the Justice Fund in compliance with the amended regulations. “So, everything was legal, but Tusk’s team doesn’t like it, and in a ‘fighting democracy,’ that’s the basis for criminal liability,” commented PiS MP Sebastian Kaleta.
Żurek’s prosecution wants to arrest Ziobro
On Tuesday, the prosecutor’s office announced that it had submitted a request to the Sejm for permission to bring criminal charges against former Minister of Justice and PiS MP Zbigniew Ziobro. The motion also includes requests for his detention and arrest.
Yesterday, Ziobro met in Budapest with Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary.
It is worth recalling that in December 2024, another PiS politician, Marcin Romanowski, was granted political asylum in Hungary. Romanowski was being pursued by Bodnar’s prosecution office and, during the PiS government, was one of the officials managing the Justice Fund.
Wawrykiewicz’s astonishing theories on “TVP in liquidation”
Michał Wawrykiewicz, one of the initiators of the politicized “Free Courts” campaign and now an MEP for the Civic Coalition, appeared as a guest on the soon-to-be-dissolved TVP Info. Commenting on the latest actions by Żurek’s prosecutors, he stated that “justice is coming – and you can see it in the mood of PiS politicians, who are simply beginning to be afraid.”
The host pointed out that under the PiS government, the regulations concerning the use of Justice Fund resources had been changed. Wawrykiewicz’s response was astonishing…
“For many reasons, I disagree with the thesis put forward by Law and Justice politicians, because what matters to the prosecution and for the legal-criminal assessment of the case is the entirety of the circumstances – that is, the intentions behind those legal changes. This was also mentioned by the prosecutor during the press conference when she announced the charges against Zbigniew Ziobro. Those legal changes had one specific purpose – to enable such a distribution of funds from the Justice Fund that served the party and financial interests of Solidary Poland’s associates,” said Wawrykiewicz.
He then went on to attack the Constitutional Tribunal, claiming that supposedly “for 10 years Poland and its citizens have not had an independent constitutional court.” He called the Tribunal “a puppet institution in the form of the Święczkowski (President of the Constitutional Tribunal) Tribunal, which cannot assess the constitutionality of legal changes.”
“All the changes introduced by PiS in haste, to enable them to carry out various criminal activities, could not be subject to review by an independent Constitutional Tribunal. That is a circumstance the prosecution will take into account. It is of systemic importance when it comes to the legislative process and the constitutionality of legal changes,” Wawrykiewicz continued.
“So, everything was legal”
PiS MP Sebastian Kaleta commented on Wawrykiewicz’s statements on social media:
“MP Wawrykiewicz admitted on neoTVP that the Justice Fund expenditures were based on a law, but that law was passed under PiS, the intentions were bad, and there’s no Constitutional Tribunal to examine it. So, everything was legal, but Tusk’s team doesn’t like it, and in a fighting democracy that’s a basis for criminal liability,” wrote the politician.
He added that, in his view, the concept behind the government of the ‘13 December coalition’ is that “the prosecution disregards the regulations under which the ministry operated because it considers them wrong.”
“And since the prosecution does not recognize those laws, it claims the actions were illegal – because they were based on laws that it does not recognize. Kafka couldn’t have come up with this,” he concluded.