Polish President Andrzej Duda wants to grant a second pardon to two former government ministers with the ousted right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party who were sentenced to two years in prison last month on corruption charges. Duda said on Thursday that he had submitted a pardon request to Justice Minister Adam Bodnar, marking a new twist in a political showdown dominating Warsaw. Duda, a PiS ally, met earlier with the wives of the two ex-minsters. The dispute between the new centre-lef
Former Polish interior minister Mariusz Kamiński, who was arrested and imprisoned late Tuesday on abuse of power charges, announced he was going on hunger strike. Kamiński, a member of the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, wrote on the social media platform X on Wednesday that his conviction and two-year prison sentence was political retaliation. On Tuesday - when Kamiński and his former state secretary Maciej Wąsik had been due to begin their sentences and as police began enforci
Two Polish politicians from the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS), who were convicted on charges of abuse of power, have landed in prison following their dramatic arrest at the presidential palace in Warsaw. Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik were last month sentenced to two years in prison by a Warsaw district court. The city's police said late Tuesday that ex-ministers were now behind bars. The two men had refused to recognize the court's decision. Earlier on Tuesday - when they h