The head of the Prime Minister’s Office, Jan Grabiec, said that the National Electoral Commission had received extensive and documented material on irregularities in the financing of the election campaign by PiS. As he said, if the members of the National Electoral Commission had read it and been impartial, they would certainly have been convinced that this was an obvious case.
On Wednesday, the National Electoral Commission will again examine the financial reports of the electoral commissions of the parliamentary elections, including PiS. Rejection of the report of the electoral commission of this party would lead to the loss of subsidies and specific subsidies.
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On Friday, the Prime Minister’s Office sent the National Electoral Commission information about notifications sent to the prosecutor’s office as a result of inspections and audits by the authorities regarding violations of the provisions of the Electoral Act, which were cited as a reason for rejecting the Electoral Commission’s financial report.
Grabiec’s accusations
As Grabiec told TVN24, according to materials collected by the Prime Minister’s Office, “the PiS election campaign was financed with millions of zlotys from the state budget and state organizational units, which is contrary to the electoral law.”
Moreover, the decisions to spend these public funds on the election campaign of PiS candidates or sometimes the entire election commission, because sometimes they were collective events, such as more than 500 picnics, were taken by PiS officials, candidates for MPs, members of the PiS political commission.
– stressed the head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery.
He noted that the material provided to the National Electoral Commission is extensive and photographically documented, “with facts, names, dates and places.” As he stated: “If the members of the National Electoral Commission would take the time to read this material and be impartial, (…) if they were willing to listen to these arguments, they would certainly be convinced that this is a straightforward case.”
He recalled that before the election campaign, the National Election Commission had issued guidelines to the Sejm and the Senate, specifying what is and what is not a violation of the Electoral Code. He added that the materials submitted to the National Election Commission refer to these guidelines and legal provisions and each time list “dozens of cases of violations”.
The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Monday that the document submitted to the National Electoral Commission included examples of irregularities: promotional and agitational activities undertaken by people working at the Government Legislation Centre on behalf of the then president of RCL, who was contesting the elections.
In addition, according to the Prime Minister’s Office, the promotional expenditures related to the 800 plus program, which was mainly organized as part of the so-called picnics 800 plus. The Prime Minister’s Office also mentions the activities carried out by the former management of the Ministry of Justice within the framework of the Justice Fund and which require an assessment by the National Electoral Commission, as well as the activities carried out by the Scientific and Academic Computer Network (NASK). , on the method of preparing online reports in 2022-2023, including: on the “credibility of law and justice”.
“Very bad documents”
Ryszard Kalisz, a member of the National Electoral Commission, pointed out on Radio Three on Monday that the National Electoral Commission has no instruments to question witnesses or collect evidence.
He stressed that the National Electoral Commission received “very poor” documents from the prosecutor’s office.
I will give you one example: the RCL case. Half-page information from the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office, a standard, in which the prosecutor writes that such an investigation is being conducted in connection with the suspicion of committing a criminal offense under Article 231 (of the Criminal Code)
– Kalisz said, adding that the document does not mention the then head of RCL, Krzysztof Szczucki, because the prosecutor’s office did not open an investigation against him.
What does this have to do with the election campaign? Would that be evidence for you?
– Kalisz asked the journalist.
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Source: wPolityce