Mariusz Kaminski, the interior minister in Poland's previous government who was imprisoned for abuse of power before being pardoned by the president on Tuesday, has said he will visit parliament, but on his own terms rather than on those of the house speaker.
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
Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday that he will not rest until two allies are released from jail as a spat with new Prime Minister Donald Tusk threatened to become a full-blown constitutional crisis. In extraordinary scenes on Tuesday, former interior minister Mariusz Kamiński and his ex-state secretary Maciej Wąsik were offered shelter at the presidential palace as police tried to arrest them. They were eventually taken away by police to start jail terms for corruption. The pair ar
Szymon Holownia, speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of Polish parliament, has stripped two senior politicians of the former ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) of their parliamentary mandates following prison sentences slapped on them by a Warsaw court.
Poland will close its border with Belarus if a “critical incident” occurs even on the Belarusian border with Lithuania and Latvia, the Polish interior minister said on Monday.