Justice Minister Adam Bodnar passed on Friday to the media that 190 electoral protests had now been received at the ultimate Court, and the deadline for protesting was June 16. “I fishy this number will increase,” he said.
"The function of the prosecution in these cases is that the prosecutors will give opinions on all electoral protests, that is, it works in specified a way that protests go to the ultimate Court, are then sent to the prosecutors' office and, in fact, a full squad of prosecutors are working on these cases. The Prosecutor’s Office is constantly responding to them – he explained.
Bodnar spoke on election irregularities
– To my knowledge, 61 protests have already been received from the ultimate Court. Most of them were referred to by the D.A. A large part of them was unfounded. On the another hand, any of them were so serious that they besides resulted in the prosecution's request to convert the votes. In fact, the full procedure should be carried out by the ultimate Court or the territory Court, which is seconded to carry out this task – it is dead.
– On the another hand, you, regardless of all this, may have various another irregularities that may scope for issues not only possible mistakes, but may be related to possible crimes. Here I would like to stress that the territory Attorney's Office in Warsaw conducts a review procedure in connection with the usage of this application for checking electoral statements," he added.
– There are also signals. We're inactive analyzing this, and these cases are being reviewed. I don't gotta convince anyone that the prosecution takes these matters absolutely seriously," Bodnar stressed.
Let us callback that on Thursday the ultimate Court decided on a possible recalculation of the votes in the elected committees during the last presidential election. It is about respective regional electoral commissions in which, according to the protests, irregularities may have occurred.
Declaration by the ultimate Court
"The ultimate Court receives electoral protests in which allegations are raised of irregularities in drafting voting protocols and erstwhile counting votes in elected regional electoral commissions. specified protests, if they meet the formal conditions, are recognised in substance" – was given on Thursday in the ultimate Court communication.
Thus, the ultimate Court decided by decision of 11 June to let evidence from the examination of voting cards in 13 regional electoral committees, in connection with the vote for president held on 1 June.
The aim is to find the number of validly cast votes on individual candidates at those locations.
The examination of the commissions in Krakow (OKW No. 95), Oleśnie (OKW No. 3), Minsk Mazowiecki (OKW No. 13, Strzelce Opolskie (OKW No. 9, Grudziądzu No. 25), Gdańsk (OKW No. 17), Bielsko-Biała (OKW No. 30 and 61), Tarnów (OKW No. 10), Katowice (OKW No. 53), Tychy (OKW No. 35), Kamienna Góra (OKW No. 6), and Brest Kujawski (OKW No. 4).
