The District Court in Warsaw has vetted acting president Bronislaw Komorowski, ruling that his vetting statement was true and that he did not cooperate, knowingly, with communist secret services.  

The vetting process of Civic Platform’s candidate – mandatory for all candidates in the presidential election - took only fifteen minutes.

Jaroslaw Skrok, prosecutor from the Institute of National Remembrance – the body charged with vetting public officials - told the court that Komorowski’s vetting statement, in which the acting president said he had not been a communist secret service agent, was true.

In 1970s and 1980s Bronislaw Maria Komorowski was part of the democratic opposition and was imprisoned during the martial law.  

According to Polish law, all candidates for president who were born before 1 August 1972 need to undergo the vetting procedure. If a court finds that a candidate lied in his vetting statement, he may be deprived of the right to run for presidency for the next ten years. (mg)