The Sejm appointed nine members of the commission to investigate Russian influence on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in the period 2007-2022. All nominated candidates were proposed by PiS, the opposition did not present their own candidates and did not participate in the vote; The Confederacy voted against.
The Sejm appointed nine candidates to the Committee to Investigate Russian Influence in 2007-2022. All candidates have been nominated by PiS; other parties have not put forward any candidates.
Nine candidates
A vote was taken for each of the nine candidates: the Director of the Military History Bureau, Sławomir Cenckiewicz, the President’s Adviser, Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz, Chairman of the Security and Defense Council of the President of the Republic of Poland, Prof. Przemysław Żurawski, aka Grajewski and Łukasz Cieszotura, Michał Wojnowski, Józef Brynkus, Marek Szymaniak, Arkadiusz Puławski and Andrzej Kowalski – PiS MPs supported each of the candidates. Members of the Civic Coalition, the Left, the Polish Coalition – PSL and other parliamentary circles did not participate in the vote. Only Confederate MPs voted against.
On May 31, the law on the establishment of a commission to investigate Russian influence on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in the years 2007-2022 came into force, which the president signed a few days earlier and at the same time announced that it would be referred to the Constitutional Court. Then, on June 2, Andrzej Duda submitted a draft amendment to this law to the Sejm. The Sejm passed it on June 16. On June 28, delegates rejected the Senate’s objection to this amendment. The president signed the amendment on July 31. It came into effect in August.
Under the presidential amendment, lawmakers will not be able to sit on the committee investigating Russian influence; the preventive measures previously included in the law have been abolished (including the prohibition on performing functions related to the provision of public funds for a maximum period of up to 10 years), and the main subject of the findings from the commission will be the acknowledgment that the person does not guarantee the proper performance of activities in the public interest; The decision of the commission must be appealed to the Court of Appeal in Warsaw.
Under the law, the commission consists of nine members of the rank of secretary of state, appointed and dismissed by the Sejm. The right to nominate to the Marshal of the Sejm no more than nine candidates for committee members accrues to any deputy or parliamentary club within the time limit specified by the Marshal.
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Source: wPolityce