A politician knows no reason
On Wednesday, PiS spokesperson Rafał Bochenek reported on platform X that organization president Jarosław Kaczyński suspended MP Krzysztof Szczucki in the rights of a associate of the group, and his case was referred to the disciplinary spokesperson of the group, Prof. Karol Karski. Karski confirmed in an interview with PAP that disciplinary proceedings in this case had already been initiated.
Szczucki pointed out that he learned about the decision straight from Bochenk's entry and did not know the reasons for the suspension, although he could guess them. Bochenek did not formally disclose the reasons for the suspension of Szczucki, nevertheless the media suggested that this could have been related, among others, to his abstaining at the presidential veto for a wide revision of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
As a consequence of the vote, the majority of the parliament did not reject the veto – 180 Members voted against, including 175 of the 177 current PiS MPs, while 2 Members of this party, including Szczucki and Paweł Jabłoński, abstained. Szczucki in a message for Polsat News indicated that he was guided by the belief that the interim arrest strategy had to be reformed.
Szcucki, in a conversation with PAP, advises any members of his organization to order Christmas:
The “colleagues” telling about my alleged contacts with Minister Żurek advise that they better get on with the Christmas arrangements, it will be more constructive and credible
“Contribution” with Żurek and not only
However, voting is not the only possible reason for the suspension of the Member. The sources of PAP from the management of the Law and Justice Office besides point to alleged attempts of informal communication between Szczuck and the Minister of Justice Waldemar Żurk and the ruling camp.
Additional doubts concern his public statements, which, according to any organization associates, may propose a close-up to the government side. The problem was raised, among others, by Szczucki's words from mid-March concerning the proposal of PiS politicians to the Constitutional Court on the constitutionality of the provisions concerning the procedure for the selection of judges by the Sejm. The politician on TVN24 admitted that he would not want to sign the proposal.
In addition, the case complicates the ongoing proceedings involving alleged fictitious employment at the Government Legislative Centre from 2020 to 1923, while Szczucki served as its president.
Lowering the sentence?
A politician from the management of the Law and Justice Office, talking to the Polish Press Agency, besides suggested that Szczucki could establish cooperation with the ruling authorities in order to alleviate his legal situation. According to him, he adjusts his statements and actions to the ‘that side’, for example, due to technological ambitions, as he plans to get a professorship at the University of Warsaw, whose authorities apply for the title to be given to the professor.
The politician besides noted Szczucki's 2025 book entitled The tyranny of the regulation of law. The request for a fresh constitution, which, as he pointed out, was not consulted with the party, and many of the proposals contained therein are not supported by the Law and Justice Party.
Jablonski defends a colleague
In defence of the suspended MP Krzysztof Szczucki, his close associate and PiS MP Paweł Jabłoński, with whom he runs a law firm and association About Poland and belongs to a faction associated with PiS Vice president Mateusz Morawiecki.
Jabłoński considered the decision to suspend to be unfair, stressing that Szczucki is an industrious expert whose views can be discussed in substance alternatively than punished. In addition, he denied reports of any cooperation between the MP and the ruling camp, identifying them as “conscious lies”, and pointed out that in the Law and Justice the situation was unacceptable in terms of individual culture, which remained without consequences.
