The parliament will decide about Ziobrze. Voting again next week!

The request for consent to the re-retention of Zbigniew Ziobra, a erstwhile Minister of Justice, will be put to the vote in the Sejm as early as next week. This key information, as confirmed by RMF FM sources, represents a crucial acceleration of the procedure that is intended to lead to a policy proceeding by the Pegasus Investigative Committee. The full case is tempoling with clear intention to close it at the seismic phase before the summertime vacation break. The decision of Members will be of fundamental importance for the follow-up of the committee, which has been trying to bring Ziobra before itself for months. This event highlights not only the legal, but besides the political urgency with which the current coalition treats the settlement of erstwhile governments.

The accelerated pace of the Sejm's work: What does it mean?

The procedure for examining the application for Zbigniew Ziobry is highly rapid. The lawyer General gave the paper to the Sejm only on Friday afternoon, and it is already known that the application has undergone an first assessment for formal correctness. He was then placed on the Rules of Procedure Committee to give an opinion as a substance of urgency, preparing the ground for the plenary vote. The gathering at which this key vote is to take place was convened at 5:00 p.m. this Wednesday. This means that Members' final decision to let Zbigniew Ziobry to be detained again and brought to the proceeding by the committee of enquiry may happen on Thursday or Friday. specified a fast way of examination clearly indicates the intention to close this case at the seismic phase before the summertime vacation break, which underlines the importance and urgency that the current authorities attach to this issue.

Previous detention attempts and position of Ziobra

It should be recalled that this is not the first effort to bring Zbigniew Ziobra before the Pegasus committee of inquiry. At the beginning of this year, at the request of the committee, the Warsaw territory Court decided to bring politics to the gathering scheduled for 31 January. The Sejm then waived Ziobrze immunity, and police attempted to detain him after 10:30 p.m., just after the interview on tv Republic. Nevertheless, the committee of enquiry was to begin at 10:30. Since Zbigniew Ziobra was not in the Chamber until the appointed hour, the committee found the consequence to be ineffective. Consequently, an application was made to apply the order punishment to him in the form of 30 days of detention, but the Warsaw territory Court did not take this request into account. Zbigniew Ziobro has consistently maintained that the Sejm investigation committee is acting illegally, citing the judgement of the Constitutional Court of September last year, which ruled on the unconstitutionality of the Sejm's resolution to appoint this committee, which is the basis for his refusal to appear.

Pegasus Investigative Commission: Scope and objective

The committee of inquiry, which aims to interview Zbigniew Ziobry, is tasked with examining in item the legality, regularity and intent of the actions taken utilizing the Pegasus strategy and akin tools. Its temporal scope covers a key period from November 2015 to November 2023. This software was intensively utilized by the Polish government, peculiar services and police for surveillance. The main nonsubjective of the committee's work is not only to measure the actions related to the usage of Pegasus, but besides to establish precisely, who precisely was liable for buying this controversial software and another surveillance tools for Polish authorities. The results of her work are intended to shed light on practices in the field of supervision and state safety over the past years, which is crucial for assessing the respect of civilian rights and transparency of service activities.

What's next? The court shall decide on the final detention

It is absolutely crucial to emphasise that, even in the case of a affirmative vote in the Sejm and the consent of Zbigniew Ziobra to halt again, this will not be equivalent to his automatic arrest. Consent of the Sejm is only a essential prerequisitewhich entitles the committee of enquiry to make a formal application to the court. It is the independent court, after careful examination of the evidence and arguments presented by both parties, that will make the final decision whether to detain and bring the erstwhile Minister of Justice to the hearing. This two-step process – first the consent of the Sejm and then the independent decision of the court – guarantees the preservation of all legal procedures and protection of the rights of the individual concerned. This means that before Zbigniew Ziobrze they will inactive have a long legal way before it can be forced, which underlines the complexity of the situation.

The upcoming vote in the Sejm on Zbigniew Ziobry is undoubtedly 1 of the most awaited moments in the legal and political conflict that has been going on for months. The speediness of the proposal demonstrates the determination of the current authorities to close this substance at the parliamentary stage. Regardless of the result of the vote, it is crucial to realize that the final decision to possibly detain the erstwhile Minister of Justice will stay in the hands of an independent court. Developments in the coming days will be closely monitored and its consequences may have a crucial impact on the Polish political scene, on the further work of the Pegasus Committee of enquiry and on the future of Zbigniew Ziobra.