“Decisions have been made in this matter based on documents and credible sources indicating numerous violations of the law in Poland committed by Donald Tusk,” former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro said when asked about the future of his asylum in Hungary after Tisza, the party led by Péter Magyar, took power.
Following Tisza’s victory in Hungary’s parliamentary elections, public debate in Poland has reignited over the presence there of Polish politicians Zbigniew Ziobro and Marcin Romanowski. Péter Magyar has made it clear that he intends to seek their expulsion from the country, although the final decision will rest with a Hungarian court.
At the same time in Poland, Sejm Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty announced that parliamentary caucus leaders are to submit a motion this week to the relevant committee seeking to bring the former justice minister before the State Tribunal.
Ziobro addressed the issue on TV Republika.
“As for theft, Mr. Czarzasty may be an expert. Even though the matters are time-barred, he is a symbol of the nomenklatura’s appropriation of property. Jan Maria Rokita spoke about this recently, describing how Czarzasty became wealthy by taking over vast public assets for next to nothing. This happened during the so-called appropriation of nomenklatura property, and Mr. Czarzasty most certainly took part in it,”
he began.
“In my case, unlike Mr. Czarzasty’s, prosecutor Piotr Woźniak, who is zealously pursuing politically motivated and fabricated charges, admitted that he does not accuse me of taking even a single PLN for personal use. The allegations concern the fact that we allocated funds to Christian and conservative organizations, which meant the end of the monopoly enjoyed by left-wing and LGBT organizations,”
he continued.
According to the former justice minister, the government is not interested in “seeing the case end with a verdict, because they know it would obviously result in an acquittal.”
“The point is to use the time of pre-trial detention to stage a farce and political theater, distracting Poles from what is happening in healthcare, from the state’s growing debt, and from rising prices. They have nothing to boast about when it comes to governing, so they want to put on spectacles. Locking up Ziobro would serve as a diversionary issue that would capture the media’s attention,”
he said.
Asked about the future of his asylum in Hungary after Viktor Orbán relinquished power, he replied:
“I want to reassure Silni Razem, especially its most ardent members, that legal procedures do exist. Decisions have been made in this matter based on documents and credible sources indicating numerous violations of the law in Poland committed by Donald Tusk. These materials conclusively show that numerous abuses occurred on various levels, in breach of international law.”
