Vice-President of the Committee Mr Trela (Levice) applied to the Warsaw territory Court for order punishment of PLN 3 1000 for non-statutory. Mr Trela besides requested that the committee ask the lawyer General to carry out procedural proceedings Święczkowski hearings.
Both proposals were adopted by vote.
Vice-President Przemysław Wipler (Confederation) stated that the current government had done nothing to change the law and order the situation with the Constitutional Court and its decision on the committee.
Last September, the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that the scope of the parliamentary committee on Pegasus was inconsistent with the constitution.
The president of the Committee, Magdalena Sroka (PSL-TD), informed that the committee had excluded opinions made before buying the Pegasus strategy from classified papers in preparation for the hearing. What happened in autumn 2017 She quoted a passage from 1 of them that states that “in the current legal state, police cannot acquisition and usage computer software that allows access to the network without the user’s cognition within operational and investigative activities‘.
Pegasus Commission. The president of the Constitutional Tribunal did not appear
In a letter of 3 February, Święczkowski informed the talker of the Sejm Simon Hołownia that he would not participate “in the illegal activities of the Sejm”.
He referred to judgment of the Constitutional Court of 10 September last yearwho, as he pointed out, ruled that the resolution setting up this committee of enquiry was unconstitutional. He called the committee a "group of Members". His non-status, as he pointed out, is besides justified due to a safety order issued earlier by the Constitutional Court, as well as an article of the Constitution according to which the decisions of the Constitutional Tribunal are universally binding and final.
‘In the light of the reasons cited above, The appointment of the president of the Constitutional Tribunal at the proceeding of the alleged Sejm Committee of enquiry would constitute an apparent breach of law“ – Święczkowski said. "I would like to stress that I have nothing to hide and I can give my evidence immediately in the event that the Sejm appoints a committee of enquiry without violating the law and the Constitution of the Republic of Poland", he added.
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He recalled that "the Court’s view is constitutionally unacceptable to a normative solution which allows the Sejm or its body — the Committee of Investigation — to measure the legality of operational and investigative activities involving operational control managed by the competent general court". According to him, this means interference in actions of a court covered by the sphere of judicial independence.
On Monday, the interview was besides scheduled and the b. Head of the Military Intelligence Service Andrzej Kowalski.
Pegasus Investigation Commission. What does he do?
Pegasus Investigation Commission examines the legality, regularity and intent of the activities carried out utilizing this software, inter alia, by the government, peculiar services and police from November 2015 to November 2023. The Commission is besides to find who was liable for buying Pegasus and akin tools for Polish authorities.
Pegasus is simply a strategy that was created by the Israeli NSO Group to fight terrorism and organised crime. With Pegasus you can not only perceive to conversations from infected smartphones, but besides access another data stored in it, specified as e-mails, photographs or video recordings, cameras and microphones.
According to Canadian findings Citizen Lab Pegasus was utilized in Poland to analyse opposition politicians.
