Morawiecki insisted he did nothing wrong and that the prosecution is politically motivated.
“The economy is sinking into ever deeper trouble … yet they are focused on persecuting the opposition. I can say this: Go ahead, lift [the immunity] and prosecute. Personally, I am more than willing to waive my immunity,” the former PM told Poland’s right-wing TV Republika.
The prosecution was hailed by government supporters.
“There are no sacred cows,” Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said on X, adding: “No one, not even the prime minister, and especially the prime minister, can undertake illegal actions!”
The ruling majority has enough votes in parliament to lift Morawiecki’s immunity, but it’s not clear when such a vote would take place.
The prosecution is also working in other cases involving PiS officials who served in the Law and Justice government that held power from 2015 to the end of 2023.
In the document requesting the lifting of Morawiecki’s immunity, prosecutors also mention eight other senior PiS politicians, including party leader Jarosław Kaczyński.
Former Deputy Justice Minister Marcin Romanowski, who was stripped of his immunity last year, fled Poland for Hungary, where he was granted political asylum.
