Morawiecki insisted he did nothing mistaken and that the prosecution is politically motivated.
“The financial system is sinking into ever deeper hassle … but they’re targeted on persecuting the opposition. I can say this: Go forward, elevate [the immunity] and prosecute. Personally, I’m greater than keen to waive my immunity,” the previous PM instructed Poland’s right-wing TV Republika.
The prosecution was hailed by authorities supporters.
“There are not any sacred cows,” Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak stated on X, including: “No one, not even the prime minister, and particularly the prime minister, can undertake unlawful actions!”
The ruling majority has sufficient votes in parliament to elevate Morawiecki’s immunity, nevertheless it’s not clear when such a vote would happen.
The prosecution can also be working in different instances involving PiS officers who served within the Law and Justice authorities that held energy from 2015 to the tip of 2023.
In the doc requesting the lifting of Morawiecki’s immunity, prosecutors additionally point out eight different senior PiS politicians, together with party chief Jarosław Kaczyński.
Former Deputy Justice Minister Marcin Romanowski, who was stripped of his immunity final yr, fled Poland for Hungary, the place he was granted political asylum.