The issue put the government at odds with opposition-aligned President Karol Nawrocki, a Trump ally.
The issue put the government at odds with opposition-aligned President Karol Nawrocki, a Trump ally.
Robert Bąkiewicz says that his words have been deliberately misrepresented as part of a political prosecution aimed against him.
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Nawrocki said he would be “the voice of those who want a sovereign Poland”.
The Israeli foreign ministry called on him to “remember the lessons” of the Holocaust because Hamas are “the new Nazis”.
Aleks Szczerbiak
Defeat in the presidential election has scuppered the ruling coalition’s plans to reset its reform agenda.
Donald Tusk has suggested a full recount of votes could be needed.
Tusk’s former lawyer says the material was made through illegal surveillance under the PiS government using Pegasus spyware.
Had he lost the vote, Prime Minister Donald Tusk would have been forced to resign.
Opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki’s presidential victory will stymie the government’s agenda.
The government’s security services spokesman, however, has insisted that Tusk’s remarks were accurate.
They want to make it easier for countries to expel foreign criminals and stop “hostile states instrumentalising migrants”.
Parliament voted almost unanimously to pass the measure, with the only opposition coming from the left.
The websites of PO, PSL and The Left have been inaccessible for much of Friday.
Republican members of the House Judicial Committee claim that Poland’s government is “weaponizing the justice system” against the conservative opposition.