President Duda wants to save the two PiS MPs convicted of abuse of office from prison. The police finally take her away. The imprisoned former interior minister speaks of political revenge.
Poland’s imprisoned former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski went on hunger strike on the first day of his prison sentence. The replaced national-conservative ruling party PiS published a corresponding statement from the politician convicted of abuse of office on the X platform (formerly Twitter). Kaminski wrote that he considered his conviction to be political revenge.
The case of the two politicians has led to an escalation of the conflict between the new center-left government of Donald Tusk and the PiS camp. Since then, the EU and NATO country Poland has been on the brink of a national crisis.
Reception in the Presidential Palace
President Andrzej Duda, who comes from the PiS, received Kaminski and Wasik at the presidential palace on Tuesday while the police were supposed to take them to prison. After several hours in the official residence, the PiS politicians were finally caught there and taken into custody.
Kaminski and Wasik were sentenced to two years in prison for abuse of office in an appeal by a Warsaw district court in December and were due to begin their sentences. Duda pardoned the two after an initial trial in 2015. However, the Supreme Court declared this pardon to be unlawful because the professional procedure was still ongoing at the time. Duda had emphasized several times that in his opinion the pardon continued to apply.
Source: Stern
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