Gazeta Prawna: the Sejm discusses the possibility of creating a commission to study the influence of Russia PiS proposed to "purge Poland of agents and creatures of all stripes," writes Gazeta Prawna.
We are talking about the creation of a state commission to investigate Russian influence. The opposition strongly opposes and believes that the basis of the bill is pure hatred and fear of losing the election.
Sylvia Dąbkowska-Pożyczka (Sylwia Dąbkowska-Pożyczka)"The creation of a state commission to investigate Russian influence is an absolute necessity; the parliamentary faction of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) supports the project on this issue," Piotr Kaleta, a deputy from the PIS, said in the Seimas on Tuesday, December 12.
According to him, "the cleansing of Poland from agents and creatures of all stripes is a natural necessity."
The Sejm of the Republic of Poland on Tuesday began the first reading of the draft law prepared by the PIS on the establishment of a state commission to study Russia's influence on Polish internal security in 2007-2022.
PiS: It's about pulling out the weeds
Petr Kaleta, on behalf of the PiS faction, stressed that his party fully supports the project. "The creation of a state commission to study the influence of the Soviets on the internal security of our homeland is an absolute necessity. Cleansing our country of agents and creatures of all stripes is, it seems to me, a natural necessity, regarding which there should be no doubt," he said. According to him, we are talking about "successfully pulling up weeds that act to the detriment of our Homeland."
"The events that started the Soviet attack on Ukraine on February 24 showed that the world and humanity have not learned lessons from the Second World War. (...) The events that are still unfolding in Ukraine prove that our eastern neighbor will stop at nothing, will do everything to enslave peoples, kill, burn. (...) That is why it is so important to resist terrorism, as well as to identify all those who at least minimally support or supported this terrorism," the politician stressed.
According to Kaleta, the commission should "get to work at a very fast pace", it should ask questions and look for answers to them. "Why did Deputy Prime Minister Valdemar Pavlyak sign such an unprofitable gas contract? Why were the plans for the construction of the Norwegian pipeline torpedoed during the reign of our predecessors? Why was the construction of modern coal blocks with very low emissions stopped?" he asked.
"At the same time, investments in new production sites were suspended, which threatened a complete energy collapse. Why during the reign of the Polish Peasant Party and the Civic Platform were liquidated: (...) the 14th Suwalki anti-aircraft artillery Regiment, the 1st Warsaw Mechanized Division in Legionovo, the 3rd Mechanized Brigade in Lublin or the 1st Sedlec reconnaissance battalion?", - listed Kaleta.
"Now (...) a few quotes: of our own free will, without coercion, we provided Russia with the possibility of industrial monitoring and permanent access to the territory where the anti-missile shield was created, Russia does not pose any military threat. Someone said that the IPR should be included in the Nord Stream-2 project, and it is ridiculous and stupid to oppose Russian investments," he continued.
"Why, finally, after the Smolensk disaster, we unconditionally left the investigation to the Russians, and the Polish commission, which was not even given an interpreter, did not receive any help? There are a lot of questions," Kaleta said.
Opposition: this is a shameful project
"This is a shameful project, on behalf of the Civil Coalition (GC), I ask you to reject it in the first reading," Marcin Kierwiński said about the idea of creating a commission to investigate Russian influence. In his opinion, the purpose of the commission is to remove Donald Tusk from political life.
"Today we are discussing one of the most curious projects in the history of the Polish Sejm after 1989. This is a law based on pure hatred and fear of losing elections," said Marcin Kervinsky, speaking on behalf of the GC faction.
The purpose of creating the commission, in his opinion, was formulated by Jaroslaw Kaczynski when he spoke about the "destruction" of the opposition. "This is Kaczynski's goal: to preserve power at any cost and to destroy all those who think differently from the PIS," he said.
"You want to investigate the Russian influence on Polish security, but you are presenting a project with Cyrillic alphabet in every page and in every article. Because this is a law extracted from Putin's closet," Kervinsky assured. "It is in Russia that they write laws designed to suppress the opposition and eliminate its leaders from the game," he added.
In his opinion, "such a proposal could only be born in sick, authoritarian heads."
If the authors of the project needed the truth, the deputy from the Civil Code said, they would have agreed to the proposal to create an investigative commission, which the opposition advocated. "But you are afraid of the investigative commission, because it would be independent of you," Kervinsky said.
"You are not interested in establishing facts, you need to get to Tusk. But you will not succeed, because millions of Poles are behind Tusk, who are tired of your constant machinations, scams and the eastern style of thinking about the state," the representative of the GC said.
In his opinion, no other government could have given Putin as many reasons to rejoice as the Moravetsky government did.
"You made Poland dependent on Russian coal," Kervinsky said. "It was you who sold Polish silver to Putin's colleagues, the Hungarian Mole," he added.
"You allowed Putin's agent to access classified information about the Polish special services," he recalled. "Your foreign policy is practically a script written in the Kremlin. You have become accomplices of Putin's cronies who are calling for the destruction of the EU and NATO," the politician claimed.
In his opinion, "PIS is the most pro–Russian party after the dissolution of the PORP."
"You want to exclude Tusk from the upcoming election race soon only in order to avoid responsibility for the kind of life you have arranged for Poles," Kervinsky said.
In his opinion, the bill is intended to create an "emergency" court, unknown in democratic countries, but characteristic of an authoritarian state. At the same time, this commission is, according to him, an instrument of IPR in the election campaign.
"It was invented not to establish facts, but to produce hate content on public television," said the deputy from the GC. "You are sure that you will build an electoral strategy on the basis of this commission. But I will upset you – it will be a nail in your political coffin," he added.
"This is a shameful project and it needs to be rejected as soon as possible, on behalf of the GC I am submitting an application for its rejection in the first reading," Kervinsky concluded his speech.
What will the commission do?
On December 1, the PiS submitted a draft law "On the State Commission for the Study of Russia's Influence on Poland's Internal Security in 2007-2022." As reported, this body will operate on principles similar to the functioning of the control commission on reprivatization in Warsaw. The Commission should consist of 9 members appointed and dismissed by the Seimas, it is headed by a chairman elected from among the members of the commission. Deputies will have to submit candidates to the commission within two weeks after the entry into force of the law.
The Commission is called upon to analyze, in particular, the actions of state bodies, the creation, reproduction, transfer of information to third parties; the impact on the content of administrative decisions; the adoption of decisions that have caused damage to the state; expressions of will on behalf of a public authority or a state-owned company; the conclusion of contracts or the disposal of public funds or funds by a state-owned company.
Readers' comments:
Co jeszcze wymyśląFinally.
After 30 years of so-called democracy, Stalinist times and censorship are returning.
Komisja oczyszczającaIf we are to clear the country of weeds and creatures, then we need to close most of the members of the IPR.
To haniebna kradzież!This "shameful project" was actually proposed by Tusk himself at first.
It's only been a month and a half and everyone has already forgotten about it? The IPR just stole the project. We have a strange opposition.
dzwon ze spiżuFirst they would have "cleared" Tusk, and then the rest of the opposition.
You can't give a monkey a razor.
