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Polish parliament strips deputy opposition leader of legal immunity
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The Sejm (lower house of parliament) voted to strip Antoni Macierewicz of his immunity. 240 MPs voted in favor, 190 against, and 9 abstained. The motion to waive the PiS MP's immunity was submitted to the Sejm in early July. Adam Bodnar, then serving as Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General, submitted it to the lower house of parliament. Bodnar argued that he intended to charge Macierewicz with disclosing state secrets in connection with th…
The motion to consent to bringing Macierewicz to criminal liability was submitted to the Sejm at the beginning of July this year by the then head of the Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar.
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wprostThe Sejm (lower house of parliament) voted to waive Antoni Macierewicz's immunity. The prosecutor plans to charge the PiS MP with, among other things, disclosing classified information. The case concerns the period when the former Minister of National Defense led the work of the Smolensk subcommittee.
On Monday, the parliamentary rules committee approved a motion to waive the immunity of PiS MP Antoni Macierewicz. Prosecutors accuse him of disclosing top-secret information as head of the so-called Smolensk subcommittee. Prosecutors from the investigative team investigating irregularities in the subcommittee's work attended the meeting.
The Sejm Rules Committee has issued a decision regarding Antoni Macierewicz's immunity. The decision was made in closed session.
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