– The case is crucial due to the fact that it concerns Security of our homeland. I was asked this morning erstwhile Minister Bodnar's message came out about the repeal of my immunity in the case concerning the defence of the Wisla during Donald Tusk's first rule, if I were to make a decision again, what decision would I make? Well, I declare that I would have made the same decision. – argued the erstwhile Minister of National Defence.
Mr Błaszczak stressed respective times that "Every part of Polish land must be defended by the Polish Army.’ He stated that it was a regulation that was restored during the regulation of the United Right.
– Unfortunately, under the regulation of the PO-PSL coalition, the rulers then departed from this rule – he said.
Request to waive immunity for Mariusz Błaszczak. Politician reacts
Mariusz Błaszczak said that Donald Tusk's environment "has eliminated more than 600,000 units", especially those located east of the Vistula River. – In 2018 we formed 18. Division Mechanized on the site of the 1 that was disbanded in 2011. Do you know who the prime minister was at the time? Donald Tusk. Who's the boss of Mon? They made specified decisions," said the PiS MP.
– My top success as Minister of National Defence, as a politician is that They can no longer go back to giving half of Poland to the Russian occupation If there was a war. due to the fact that public opinion will not let them to do so," said Błaszczak, adding that society already knows that they have done this before.
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The erstwhile head of the MON besides suggested that he did not intend to let Ukraine's past to be repeated in Poland, which has been facing Russian aggression for 3 years. I saw graves of people, victims of the civilian Russian occupation. Thanks to the Law and Justice Governments, specified events will not happen in Poland, due to the fact that we changed the rule to the basic rule of defence at the border," he said.
Adam Bodnar wants to hold Mariusz Błaszczak responsible
On Wednesday, the National Prosecutor's Office informed the lawyer General of the transfer of an application to the Sejm to waive immunity to Mariusz Błaszczak.
The territory Attorney's Office in Warsaw assessed that Mariusz Błaszczak as the head of the MON, He's out of his league. on the abolition of the “Top Secret” and “Secret” classification from the passages of “Plan of usage of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland WARTA-00101 Self-Defense Defence Operation-Main Part”.
Let us remind that Błaszczak then claimed that “citizen coalition decision-makers did not want to defend Poland on the Bug line“They felt that Poland should be defended on the Vistula line.”
As the D.A. points out, July 31, 2023 Błaszczak abolished the clauses "Tightly Secret" and "Secret" from strategical planning documents, although the statutory grounds for protection have not ceased classified information contained therein.
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Subsequently, on 17 September 2023, he publically disclosed and, contrary to the provisions of the Act on the Protection of Classified Information, utilized fragments declassified by him on the authoritative profile of the Law and Justice organization on platform X.
The passages made available included, among others, the period of conducting a stand-alone defence operation, the determination of strategical rungs and defenceheads of the Republic of Poland, and the date of arrival of the Alliance Force.
“And he did it. to accomplish individual benefits for its political formation – i.e. organization and election committee of Law and Justice – declared the prosecution.
Prosecutor's Office: Mariusz Błaszczak declassified papers without permission
As the D.A. said, Blaszczak acted to the detriment of the public interest and caused ‘exceptionally serious injury for the Republic of Poland its independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, global position and cohesion of the North Atlantic Alliance".
The Public Prosecutor's Office indicates that the Minister of National Defence has the competence to decide whether to abolish or change the classification given to certain documents, but may only do so after prior approval of the individual who gave the clause to those documents.
In the case of operational planning documents, approval to declassified papers should be granted by the Chief of General Staff, as it is the General Staff of the HR-Office for Planning of the usage of the Armed Forces and Training that performs and assigns the classification of this category of documents. specified approval, Ministry not obtained.
