2026-04-30 13:52
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2026-04-30 13:52
The Sejm lifted the immunity of Antoni Macierewicz (PiS). This was requested by the prosecutor's office, which wants to bring charges against the MP for public insult in connection with his statement from September 2025, when during a session of the Sejm he called the management of the Military Counterintelligence Service “Russian agents”.
450 MPs took part in Thursday's vote, 242 in favor and 208 against. No one abstained.
The waiver of Macierewicz's immunity in this case was recommended on April 16 this year. Sejm committee on regulations, parliamentary affairs and immunity.
She announced that the prosecutor's office had submitted the request to the Sejm at the end of January this year. spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General, Anna Adamiak. As she said then, prosecutors want to accuse Macierewicz of having on September 11, 2025, during the Sejm session, “insulted public officials – the head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, Brig. Gen. Dr. Jarosław Stróżyk, and his deputies: Col. Krzysztof Dusza and Col. Artur Pluto – because of the positions they held – calling the indicated people Russian agents.”
Moreover – according to the prosecutor's office – Macierewicz allegedly accused the SKW management of “cooperating with the Russian secret services, i.e. conduct that could humiliate them in public opinion and expose them to the loss of trust necessary to hold positions, thus acting to their detriment.”
Macierewicz said at the April meeting of the Sejm regulations committee that he was surprised by the prosecutor's office's actions. – The essence of my statement from the point of view that is put forward here is that there is no name (…). I am not mentioning any name because the problem is completely different than the one interpreted by the prosecutor's office, he said. – The essence of the problem is the agreement that was concluded for cooperation with Russia – he added. Macierewicz said that the prosecutor's allegations were irresponsible and of a political nature.
Macierewicz's statements – which are the subject of the prosecutor's request – were made during the debate on the information presented to the Sejm by the Deputy Prime Minister and the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, regarding the violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones.
The MP then said: “It was not an accident, it was not an ad hoc action, it was the beginning of the war. We can win this war, but if the leadership of the Military Counterintelligence Service still consists of Russian agents whom Mr. Donald Tusk appointed in 2011 (…)” – Macierewicz's words were recorded in the parliamentary transcript. This sentence was not completed because – as noted in the annotation in the transcript – it caused “a stir in the room.”
Macierewicz added: “They are now the heads of the Military Counterintelligence Service again, i.e. the formation that has the greatest knowledge about the army and knows the most about what the army implements.” “And these are people who cooperated with the Russian secret services. How long will you tolerate them? How long will you support them?” – Macierewicz's question was recorded in the transcript.
According to the prosecutor's office, “the groundless accusations of secret agent cooperation with the Russian Federation, made by the MP against the management of the Military Counterintelligence Service, clearly exceeded the limits of permissible criticism in public debate.”
In January this year, when the motion to waive Macierewicz's immunity in this case was submitted to the Sejm, prosecutor Adamiak pointed out that although such an act “is, in principle, subject to private prosecution, in the circumstances of this case, the prosecutor found it justified to subject it to ex officio prosecution, guided by the public interest.” (PAP)
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