Pegasus will hit Poland's relations with Brussels
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The Pegasus system, for which the state paid PLN 25 million, was involved in the surveillance of Krzysztof Brejza, the head of the PO campaign in 2019, on the occasion of an investigation into the appropriation by a local government official ... PLN 300,000. The KO senator announced that he was suing Jarosław Kaczyński for suggesting that he was involved in serious crimes. So the prosecutor's office entered the action. On Monday, CBA agents delivered to the senator's father, the president of Inowrocław, Ryszard Brejza, a summons to the prosecutor's office as a suspect.
As Michał Szułdrzyński, a columnist for Rzeczpospolita daily notes, the ruling camp is not aware that Pegasus is a ticking bomb. It's not about polls. The PiS propaganda has so disgusted the PiS voters of the opposition's politicians that probably a large part of them only feel satisfied that they were beaten on the other side. However, it is about the image of Poland outside. PiS argued that it was in conflict with the EU because it was defending sovereignty. Attacks on free media (lex TVN) were also explained by the need to protect sovereignty.
The wiretapping scandal during the campaign of the chief of staff of the opposition party shows how much these explanations are worth. It is not about any reform of the judiciary, about sovereignty, about a conservative agenda, but about the murderous tendencies of this authority.
