First specified committee of the fresh government
This week, the Sejm is expected to proceed its work on a resolution on the committee of enquiry on the alleged enveloped elections. Politicians of the civilian Coalition, the 3rd Way and the Left claim that this is the first committee of enquiry appointed by the Sejm of this term. The commission may start in December. The information was provided by Virtual Poland marshal Marek Sawicki.
The study of the parliamentary committee on the envelope elections is scheduled for Thursday, 7 December. The programme provides for statements by the members' clubs and groups in the plenary room. PiS politicians are going to stick to their story. According to them, the effort to hold presidential elections within the set deadline (let us remind you that it was a day on May 10, 2020) despite the COVID-19 pandemic was only dictated by the concern to comply with the principles contained in the Constitution.
PiS politicians do not seem to care about possible violations of the law or making decisions incompatible with it, as described in the study of the ultimate Chamber of Control. Representatives of Jarosław Kaczyński's organization keep that there has been no violation of the law. However, if this was the case, they were self-governments “related to the opposition” who refused to share citizens' data and opposed correspondence choices.
Jarosław Gowin should be the first 1 to be interviewed in the Committee on the Explanation of the Envelope Elections.
You'll learn about threats, blackmailing MPs of the "Agreement" and their families, trying to kill Gowin.
I hatred to compose this, but we'll inactive thank Gowin for not bending. pic.twitter.com/rrJNTJXgPI
— Stockton the Devil (@Diabel_68) December 5, 2023
However, politicians who previously were opposition have a different view of the full case. They will surely effort to prove their point, calling as a witness the people who were closest to those events at the time.
Gowin like a crown witness
And this is where Jarosław Gowin, erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development, Labour and Technology, appears. It is estimated that he can play a key function as 1 of the main witnesses before the enquiry committee investigating the case of the envelope election. From the information obtained by Virtual Poland, he is inclined to do so. The Commission is about to start operations soon, and the fresh majority in the Sejm expects a “shocking” public opinion coverage on the practices of the United Right.
The shocking character is due to the fact that everything previously known unofficially will should be presented to the public. Full names and names will fall here, and the full will affect criminal liability. any compare the function of Gowin almost as a crown witness.
His relation may not only harm the PiS leaders, but besides origin further tensions inside the party. It is known that for the PO, the Envelope Election Investigation Commission will be of large importance. any sources say that 1 of its members may be Mr Michał Szczerba, who, together with Dariusz Joński, oversaw decisions taken by the authorities during the pandemic. These decisions, as the study of the ultimate Chamber of Control showed, were in many cases unlawful and led to multimillion-dollar losses to the state budget. In the final report, the Chamber indicated that the full process of organising future elections led to an unprofitable spending from the Treasury. In total, decisions relating to the organisation of the envelope elections cost the state budget over PLN 130 million.
If Jarosław Gowin is honest, then the committee of enquiry on the envelope election will be recorded in the past of Polish politics. What they did to this man (I know – he pushed himself into it and sold the country) is simply a material that overthrows all EU government west of Poland....
— Ten_Psychologist (@Ten_Psychologist) December 5, 2023
Gowin has individual reasons.
Let us remind here that Jarosław Gowin was 1 of the biggest opponents of the thought of the PiS to organize presidential elections during the pandemic. He felt they were illegal and dangerous. He tried to convince his coalitions, but he found no support.
Initially, Gowin had allies in the form of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and wellness Minister Łukasz Szumowski. Both shared his concerns and doubts. However, under the influence of Jarosław Kaczyński, they changed their minds and accepted the plan of the correspondence election, proposed by Adam Bielan, who betrayed Gowin and left his party.
However, Gowin did not step down and endanger to leave the coalition if the envelope election came to pass. This led to large conflict and division in the ruling camp. Kaczyński had to agree to decision the elections to summer, but did not forget Gowin this situation. A year later, he removed him from the government and crashed his party.
So Gowin has individual reasons not to be silent about events that have affected the destiny of Polish politics. The leaders of the fresh parliamentary majority are aware of this.
Relationship with PO and psychiatric hospital
Jarosław Gowin became a Senator from the Civic Platform list in Kraków territory in 2005. He joined the organization in 2007 and became an MP. Following the triumph of the PO in the election, he joined the board of the national organization in which he sat until 2010. In 2011, president Bronisław Komorowski appointed him Minister of Justice in Donald Tusk's second government.
Gowin left the government 3 times. The politician served as Minister of Justice from November 2011 to May 2013. At the time, he frequently disagreed with the head of government – for example, in vitro or in partnership, which he felt was incompatible with the Constitution. He seemed closer to PiS than PO.
Is Gowin going to “power” Kaczyński behind bars?
It can aid the fresh majority take down the PiS. "Jarosław Gowin is willing to testify" — WP News https://t.co/lvYGmw7ZJS
— Eve (@Ewa0909Ewa) December 5, 2023
After many peturbations and conflicts with PiS Gowin again made an effort to decision to the another side. In 2022, at the gathering "Security of the east flank of NATO. And he said,
I hope that in any configuration opposition parties will agree on a common list, or more likely a common list," Gowin said. He besides stressed that the place of his group "is clearly on the side of the opposition".
But no 1 was on fire to cooperate with him. Tusk, for example, describes the situation this way:
Someone invited Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin to meet the opposition leaders. Okay, my mom raised me so I didn't make any fuss and gestures. A discussion began about the future of political politicians who built this power of the Law and Justice, participated in it, and present they wake up. I want everyone a fair reflection on what they were doing and doing as shortly as possible.
The affair with the envelope election and the party's dissolution surely besides contributed to Gowin's stay in a intellectual hospital. On TVN24 Gowin explained:
I had a depression that resulted in months of insomnia. In turn, deficiency of sleep was a side effect of COVID-19. This was due to the work and the violent attack of the PiS.
