Opposition Law and Justice (PiS) has proposed Jacek Kurski as candidate for the parliamentary investigative committee looking into allegations of political pressure exercised on the Secret Services, 31 October 2005 to 16 November 2007.
PiS suggested Kurski for the position after the speaker of the lower house rejected the candidature of former head of military counterintelligence, Antoni Macierewicz (PiS).
The nomination is controversial as the governing Civic Platform holds Macierewicz responsible for “information leaks” in the period when he was in charge of liquidating the post-Communist Military Intelligence Services (WSI) and for publishing names of WSI officers in his report on its activities after 1989.
Mariusz Kamiński, spokesman of the parliamentary club of PiS has explained that his party has made a rational decision to propose a new candidate for the investigative panel.
Kamiński declared that his party will not boycott the investigation, although it anticipates referring a new law on the appointment of the committee to the Constitutional Tribunal.
A motion is likely to be filed on Thursday when the parliament will put the new law to a vote.
Mariusz Kamiński also informed that PiS has filed a motion with the parliamentary committee for ethics against deputy speaker Stefan Niesiołowski (PO) for calling the PiS candidate Jacek Kurski “a man without honour”. (mj) (photo: Kurski with J. Kaczynski, by Jakub Szymczuk)