“If we don’t succeed this term, and it can be assumed that this will be the case, we will set up a real commission of inquiry in the next term (…). We will also question Ms Kidawa-Błońska,” Law and Justice MP Waldemar Buda said on Telewizja wPoland. “Then we don’t just send a report to the public prosecutor’s office,” he added.
Przemysław Czarnek, a PiS MP, wanted the video material he provided to the committee to be broadcast before his question was asked at a meeting of the post-election committee. Chairman Dariusz Joński refused to broadcast them. The PiS MP presented the recordings on platform X that he wanted broadcast during the committee meeting.
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It involved replacing PO candidates
Waldemar Buda stated in a conversation with Żaklina Skowrońska and Bartosz Łyżwiński that “this material is available to everyone, but we, as members of the committee, found it very quickly and we remembered it from that time.”
Based on these recordings and these public speeches, we want to hear key witnesses in this case. These recordings feature the main authors of the entire correspondence election, this entire issue. Without them the elections would have been held in May and there would have been no problem. There was a political group that in three weeks changed its views 180 degrees when it came to the postal elections
– emphasized the PiS MP.
He also briefly outlined the circumstances under which the then opposition torpedoed the postal elections.
There was one bill on postal elections – full support, including from Mr Dariusz Joński. Then the loss of support from Ms Kidawa-Błońska and the obstacle that prevented the introduction of full correspondence elections – blocking it in the Senate, blocking it by Rafał Trzaskowski, blocking it by Ms Kidawa-Błońska and finally blocking these elections. For what? To change candidates
Buda recalled.
Kidawa-Błońska will then be interrogated
He also added how – in his opinion – the Civic Platform should then behave.
In this situation, it would be normal for the political community to come out and say: we are sorry, we chose the wrong candidate, we had to replace him, we blocked the elections, we replaced the candidate, it cost all Poles PLN. 70 million, we are sorry, but there was no other way, we made a bad choice and identified who could be a real opponent for Andrzej Duda. The decisions were mainly made by Borys Budka, because he was the head of the Civic Platform at the time
– he said.
Meanwhile, according to Buda, PO decided to abdicate responsibility, set up an investigative committee and pretend “it is Law and Justice’s fault.”
Before the commission’s work began, 79 percent (another survey showed 82 percent) of citizens were convinced that it was we who caused this money to be wasted. What does today reveal? After the work of the committee – which had to confirm Poland’s belief in this statement – it turned out that from 49 to 52 percent claim that the then opposition and the current government coalition are responsible for the waste of PLN 70 million
Buda emphasized.
As he announced, “we will not leave this matter alone.”
If this does not work out this term, and it can be assumed that this will be the case, we will set up a real committee of inquiry in the next parliamentary term (…). We will also question Ms Kidawa-Błońska. Then we not only send a report to the public prosecutor’s office. (…) We have to find a legal mechanism, we will probably introduce a bill that can blame a specific team, a specific political party, for these types of solutions. It cannot be that the Poles lost 70 million PLN; they try to convince themselves that someone else did it and that they are not responsible for it. It was purely a political decision
– said Waldemar Buda.
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Source: wPolityce