The Sejm resumed its sessions. MPs elected members of the Pegasus inquiry committee. The chairman will be Magdalena Sroka from Trzecia Droga, and her deputies will be Marcin Bosacki from KO, Marcin Przydacz from PiS and Tomasz Trela from left. The Sejm will hear information in 2022 on the activities of the Commissioner for Human Rights and the state of play in respect of human rights and civil rights and freedoms.
Swearing-in of the new Member of Parliament
At the beginning of the session, Magdalena Łośko took the parliamentary oath; she replaced KO’s Krzysztof Brejza, who took over as MEP. This happened after Radosław Sikorski, Member of the European Parliament, became head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Sejm also sworn in the new President of the Office for the Protection of Personal Data, Mirosław Wróblewski.
Selection of members of the Pegasus Research Committee
The Sejm has elected members of the Pegasus Investigative Committee, which should investigate the legality, accuracy and targeting of operational and reconnaissance activities undertaken using this software, including: by the government, secret services and police between November 16, 2015 and November 20 2023. The Commission should also determine who was responsible for the purchase of Pegasus and similar devices for the Polish authorities. It will also be investigated whether the operational and reconnaissance activities carried out with Pegasus against Polish citizens were legal, correct and intentional.
The Sejm decided that the members of the committee were: Marcin Bosacki, Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska and Witold Zembaczyński from the Civic Coalition club, Mariusz Gosek, Marcin Przydacz, Jacek Ozdoba and Sebastian Łukaszewicz from PiS, Magdalena Sroka from PSL-Trzeciej Droga, Paweł Śliz from Poland 2050-Trzeciej Droga, Tomasz Trela from left and Przemysław Wipler from the Confederation.
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Current affairs
In addition, the Sejm will hear updated information from the government on irregularities in the expenditure of funds from the Justice Fund, which was requested by the KO Parliamentary Club from the Minister of Justice.
The ministers will also answer questions from parliamentarians on current affairs, including: regarding the protest of Polish road transport operators on access roads to the Polish-Ukrainian border crossings. Members of the PSL club requested information on this subject. The Confederation Club wants to ask about the Polish-Ukrainian talks at the level of the ministries of agriculture in connection with the bilateral trade agreement on agricultural products, and the PiS MPs want to ask about the difficult situation in agriculture caused by the poor EU policies implemented by Donald Tusk’s government and the demands made by farmers during the January 24 protests.
KO MPs will ask the head of the Ministry of Defense about the costs and activities of the subcommittee to re-investigate the Smolensk disaster, established in 2016 and led by Antoni Macierewicz.
The Members of the European Parliament will also hear information from the government on the situation of older people in Poland for 2022, as well as information on the activities of the Ombudsman and the status of compliance with human rights and civil rights and freedoms in 2022.
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Source: wPolityce