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Polish authorities arrest former interior minister and his deputy

January 11, 2024 GOVERNMENT, Spotlight, Tyranny 0

ER Editor: This type of story is following hard on the heels of another ridiculous situation in which the new government led by former Polish PM and globalist, pro-EU Donald Tusk (is this man still around?) suddenly closed down a public media channel because … it was a threat to demococracy. See —

Polish public media chiefs dismissed, news channel stops broadcasting

Now there is a contrived ‘political prisoners’ situation originating in a 2015 case against a former interior minister and his deputy. Back then they were convicted of abuse of power, for which they obtained a legal pardon permitted by the Polish constitution from President Andrzej Duda (he’s still president and is of the right-populist stripe). This current crisis, starting late in 2023, rests on finding a way to overturn those historical pardons on legal grounds and arrest the two men. 

The drama got elevated within the last 2 days because the two men took refuge in the presidential palace of Duda and got arrested there by police.

Tusk’s government appears to be taking a revenge posture on the right-populist government it recently replaced. To us this is all about waking up the normies.

A reminder: NOBODY governs like this, folks.

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RT below does a nice job of summarizing the situation. This Notes from Poland (deep state alert) piece breaks it down a little more, explaining about the validity (or not) of presidential pardons.

Warrants issued for convicted former PiS ministers to begin serving prison sentences

Of note —

However, last year, a chamber of the Supreme Court found the president’s pardons to be invalid because they were issued while the pair were still appealing against their original conviction. That paved the way for them to receive a final conviction in December.

But another top court, the Constitutional Tribunal (TK), ruled that the Supreme Court has no right to question presidential pardons. Last week, a separate chamber of the Supreme Court effectively recognised the pardons as valid. Both that chamber and the TK are staffed by PiS-appointed judges.

Yesterday, Mateusz Morawiecki, the former PiS prime minister, described the decision to detain Kamiński and Wąsik as “lawlessness in its pure form”, adding that “this is how dictatorships are born”.

Some tweets —

For the record, we are not fans of Steve Bannon, on the contrary, nor Jack Posobiec, but this isn’t a bad perspective —

Gotta love Alex. Resist the End of Days drama, folks. There won’t be a war —

Did we say? NOBODY governs like this.

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Polish authorities arrest former interior minister and his deputy

The former officials have been accused of abusing power

RT

Former Polish interior minister Mariusz Kaminski and his deputy Maciej Wonsik have been arrested and are facing prison over accusations of abuse of power. The detention of the two Law and Justice party (PiS) MPs has sparked outrage among the Polish opposition, which has described them as “political prisoners.”

Polish authorities arrest former interior minister and his deputy
A protester holds a sign with effigies of detained former MPs Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik © Getty Images / Jaap Arriens;  NurPhoto
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The two politicians were arrested by police on Tuesday while they were staying at the presidential palace of Polish President Andrzej Duda. The two MPs were waiting to meet with Duda, who had not yet returned to the palace when police entered the building.

The arrest stems from a case that was brought against Kaminski and Wonsik back in 2015, when a court sentenced them to three-and-a-half years in prison for abuse of power. However, before the court’s verdict took legal effect, President Duda pardoned them and the sentence was annulled.

Poland’s new government, led by pro-EU politician Donald Tusk, has claimed that Duda did not have the right to grant the two MPs amnesty. After winning the general election and ousting the PiS party last month, the new government reopened the case against the former minister and his deputy. The two officials ended up being handed two-year prison sentences.

Kaminski’s arrest has sparked outrage among PiS supporters, with the leader of the party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, describing the two MPs as Poland’s “first political prisoners since 1989.” He vowed “consequences” for those behind the move.

President Duda has also condemned the actions of the police and Tusk’s government, insisting that the two MPs had been pardoned by his decree and that their new sentences violated constitutional norms.

During a PiS press conference on Wednesday, associates of Kaminski also read out a statement from the former interior minister, who announced that he had begun a hunger strike and slammed his conviction as “political revenge” for the work he had done in fighting corruption.

The PiS party is set to hold a mass demonstration in Warsaw on Thursday, which has been dubbed by party leader Kaczynski as ‘The Protest of Free Poles’ against Donald Tusk’s new pro-EU government. During the march, the party is also expected to demand the immediate release of Kaminski and Wonsik.

Source

Featured image source, Donald Tusk: https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1745049719737335821

Featured image source, Kaminski and Woncik: https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/01/09/warrants-issued-for-convicted-former-pis-ministers-to-begin-serving-prison-sentences/

 

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