Most advocated “in favour”
In the first half of July, the enquiry committee's proposal for Zbigniew Ziobry was handed over to the talker of the Sejm by lawyer General Adam Bodnar. During the vote in the committee, 16 Members voted – 10 voted for the proposal, 6 voted against and no individual abstained.
After the vote, Mr Jarosław Urbaniak from KO, who was chair of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Members' Affairs and Immunities, took the floor:
The Commission will submit to the Sejm a proposal to accept the motion for the Sejm to grant its consent for detention and to bring Zbigniew Ziobry to the session of the Sejm's committee of inquiry – he said.
There is simply a strong likelihood that the Sejm will vote on the proposal next Friday.
Persistence
During the committee meeting, the request of Vice-President Kazimierz Smoliński of the PiS was rejected, who demanded that the application be rejected. citing the judgement of the Constitutional Court of September 2024, he argued that the Pegasus committee had been set up unconstitutionally and that its activities were illegal.
According to the Polish Constitution, the judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal are universally binding and irrevocable. You're trespassing. Working on the request of the unauthorised body, which was the Pegasus committee – tried to convince Smolinski unsuccessfully.
On the another hand, the president of the enquiry committee Magdalena Sroka of PSL-TD concluded that the multiple non-representation of Zbigniew Ziobry before the committee exhausts the signs of persistent obstruction of her work and constitutes a deliberate action to block the fulfilment of her constitutional tasks.
Eight failed attempts
On 27 June, the Parliamentary Committee on Pegasus for the eighth time attempted to question erstwhile Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobry. The previous, seventh deadline was set for 5 June, and after his failure, the members of the committee voted to impose a fine of PLN 3 000 on Ziobra.
As early as January, the Warsaw territory court issued a decision to force him into a committee meeting. After the earlier waiver of immunity by the Sejm, the police stopped politics on the day of the sitting, after 10:30 p.m. However, the committee concluded that the result had not been successful due to the fact that Ziobro did not appear in the gathering area in due time. As a consequence, a request was made for 30 days in prison, but the court did not accept it.
The Pegasus Investigative Commission examines whether the usage of this spyware by the government, peculiar services, and police during the Law and Justice Governments was legally conducted. It besides aims to find who was liable for buying Pegasus and akin systems for state authorities.
Ziobro considers the committee illegal
Zbigniew Ziobro one more time challenged the legality of the Pegasus committee, declaring its actions illegal and announcing the legal consequences for its members. He informed that he had to postpone the oncology operation due to a gathering of the Rules Committee and announced his absence from the country between 4 and 7 August. He besides referred to the views of constitutionalists, according to which the Member's immunity cannot be waived without being accused. Before the vote, he called for the Constitution to be respected.
Mr Zbigniew Bogucki, who stressed the deficiency of grounds for waiving immunity and the ineffectiveness of the committee's work, took a akin position.
