Members of the illegal investigative commission delivered statements at the start of the session. “It’s projection,” commented Zbigniew Ziobro. “They should be immediately excluded due to lack of impartiality. The law on the parliamentary investigative commission explicitly provides for this,” emphasized lawyer Bartosz Lewandowski.
After Zbigniew Ziobro was forcibly brought in as a witness before the parliamentary investigative commission on Pegasus shortly after noon, the proceedings resumed following a break. Before the deputies proceeded to question the witness, the session began with a reminder of a press conference given by the then Minister of Justice.
Afterwards, the members delivered their comments in the form of statements.
“The investigative commission exists and is doing well, Roman Giertych was right, and the Pegasus system is not a winged horse,” commented Magdalena Sroka, chair of the body.
“The era of Law and Justice (PiS) sacred cows, who mocked the Polish state by saying Pegasus was a gaming control tool or a winged horse, ended definitively on October 15, 2023,” said Tomasz Trela from the New Left. MP Witold Zembaczyński also spoke, stating that “the state acted effectively, bringing the witness to the hearing”. In a similar tone, Patryk Jaskulski and Sławomir Ćwik also spoke.
Zbigniew Ziobro referred to these words in his spontaneous statement, saying that the members’ remarks were “projection”. Lawyer Bartosz Lewandowski, referring to the law on the parliamentary investigative commission, stressed on platform X that “for each of the statements delivered, the members of the investigative commission should be immediately excluded due to lack of impartiality”. Such a motion had earlier been submitted during the proceedings by Zbigniew Ziobro.