On Wednesday, the Sejm will vote on the commission’s appointment of candidates with proposed Russian influence. The deadline for submitting candidates is Tuesday at 8pm among parliamentary groups
only PiS submitted its 9 candidates on time. PiS candidates for the committee are:
- Sławomir Cenckiewicz – historian, director of the Military Historical Office, author of the controversial series “Reset”, broadcast by TVP
- Lukasz Ciegotura – WBH deputy director, Cenckiewicz collaborator
- Michal Wojnowski – historian dealing with Russian geopolitical thought and the theory of information warfare, author of publications in the Homeland Security Agency magazine
- Marek Czeszkiewicz – former head of the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau branch in Rzeszów (2007-2010), former deputy regional prosecutor in Białystok (2016-2017), currently member of the State Court
- Przemysław Żurawski aka Grajewski – political scientist, publicist, chairman of the presidential council for security and defense, member of the political cabinet of Minister of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau
- Marek Szymaniak – historian, deputy director of the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk
- Arkadiusz Puławski – deputy director of the government security department
- Andrzej Kowalski – former head of military intelligence (2015-2020)
- Andrzej Zybertowicz – sociologist, publicist, social adviser to the president
However, on Wednesday afternoon, after the statutory deadline had passed, Marek Czeszkiewicz withdrew from the race. PiS spokesman Rafał Bochenek later announced that another candidate would be nominated soon.
Later, a print introducing a new candidate – Józef Brynkus, a professor at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, was published on the parliament’s website. As we read in parliamentary publications, Dr. hab. Józef Brynkus is a historian specializing in history education. He was also a member of the Sejm for the 8th term (2015-2019), elected from the Kukiz’15 list.
“Lex Tusk” and his commission. What does the law contain?
On May 31, the law on the creation of a commission to investigate Russia’s influence on the internal security of the Republic of Poland in 2007-2022 came into force – created on the initiative of PiS – and the president signed it a few days later. previously, while announcing that the matter would be referred to the Constitutional Court. Then – June 2 –
Andrzej Duda submitted a draft amendment to this law to the Sejm. The Sejm approved it on 16 June. On June 28, lawmakers rejected the Senate’s objections to this amendment. The president signed the amendment on July 31. This came into effect in August.
According to the presidential amendment, parliamentarians will not be able to sit on the commission to investigate Russian influence, countermeasures previously included in the law have been removed (including the ban on holding functions related to the management of public funds for a longer period of up to 10 years) , and the main point of this commission’s findings is the recognition that a person does not guarantee the proper implementation of activities in the public interest. An appeal against the commission’s decision will be submitted to the Court of Appeal in Warsaw.
Based on the law, the commission consists of 9 people with the rank of state secretary, appointed and dismissed by the Sejm. Each deputy or parliamentary club has the right to nominate no more than nine candidates for the committee members of the Marshal of the Sejm, within the time limit determined by the Marshal.
Laws, which in everyday language are called
“lex Tusk”, and the commission to be established under these provisions has been opposed by the opposition from the start. According to him, the commission would be a constitutionally flawed body, and its sole purpose would be to fight political opponents and make it difficult for them to carry out public functions if PiS loses power.
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