Pressure on Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro grows after evidence, given by a former interior minister suggesting that he was using the secret service for political ends, was read out to parliament.

”Even if only a third of what former minister Kaczmarek told the investigative committee is true, you should be completely ashamed of yourselves”, LPR leader Roman Giertych said on a program on Radio Zet, Sunday.

Shorthand notes from the ex minister of interior and administration Janusz Kaczmarek’s interrogation by the investigative commission last week were read out before the Polish Parliament last Friday.

On Sunday, politicians from the League of Polish Families (LPR), Self defence and Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) called the matter a ‘complete embarrassment’ to the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and said that Justice Minister Ziobro should be dismissed with immediate effect. With an elections only weeks away in Poland, Jan Rokita from Civic Platform (PO) stressed that Ziobro’s dismissal would be symbolic. “Under the circumstances, a dismissal of the justice minister would have a cleansing effect” he said. Minister Ziobro has denied all the allegations made against him, which include that he had put pressure on the police services to get a conviction against Barbara Blida, a minister from the previous leftwing government, which eventually led to her suicide earlier this year.

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