Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is slated to be questioned as one of the final witnesses in the ongoing inquiry, alongside Jarosław Kaczyński, president of Law and Justice. This information was disclosed by the deputy head of the Postal Election Investigative Committee on RMF FM and it points to a timeframe of two to three months for Morawiecki’s testimony.
According to Jacek Karnowski, the deputy head of the committee, Morawiecki is expected to appear within two or three months as one of the last witnesses. Karnowski emphasized that Kaczyński, who served as the main ideologue behind the elections, will also be called to testify in the same period. The remarks came in on Wednesday during a radio interview. [citation: wPolityce]
Plans were also announced for February 14 to question other senior figures tied to the election process. The ninth-term Sejm chairman Elżbieta Witek and former head of the National Electoral Commission Wojciech Hermeliński were named as expected participants in the forthcoming sessions. [citation: wPolityce]
Prior participants in the inquiry
Thus far, the Committee on Envelope Elections has conducted interviews with a range of public figures and professionals. Among them were epidemiologist Robert Flisiak, former Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin, former MP Michał Wypij from the Agreement party, former deputy heads of MAP Artur Soboń and Tomasz Szczegielniak, former Minister of State Assets Jacek Sasin, and Michał Dworczyk, previously heading the Prime Minister’s Chancellery. [citation: wPolityce]
The inquiry touches on the 2020 presidential elections, which were originally scheduled for May 10, 2020, during the COVID-19 outbreak in Poland. The government expressed an intention to conduct the vote by post in that period. Electoral packages were prepared for delivery by Poczta Polska, using voter lists obtained through local authorities. [citation: wPolityce]
The committee was formed to examine the legality, regularity, and purposefulness of the measures put in place for the 2020 presidential election conducted via postal voting. Its mandate includes scrutinizing the legislative steps taken by those in power, the administrative actions issued, and whether those actions led to an unfavorable disposition of public resources or the mismanagement of assets belonging to the Ministry of Finance or other institutions. [citation: wPolityce]
The remarks attributed to Jacek Karnowski, the Civic Coalition lawmaker who previously led the discussion as a mayor, reflect strong emotional undertones. Describing an “ideological father” for the process appears to signal political stakes and media attention, rather than a purely technical clarification of the committee’s concerns. [citation: wPolityce]
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Source: wPolityce