Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Tuesday that the Internal Security Agency has filed a notice with the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw regarding the so-called Matecki application, allegedly used to verify voting certificates. The police are investigating a separate thread of personal data breaches by this application, he added.
The Prime Minister, in his speech at the beginning of the government session, also referred to President Andrzej Duda's entry regarding alleged influence on the election result. As he stated, he did not notice anyone from the coalition trying to undermine the result . At the same time, he emphasized that “no one (…) has the right to disregard even a single wasted vote.”
“There is a lot of noise about the possibly illegal application, the so-called Matecki application; we are not talking about election fraud or bad vote counting, but perhaps about committing a crime,” Tusk said. This concerns an application allegedly used to verify certificates of the right to vote, which PiS MP Dariusz Matecki recommended to members of the so-called Election Control Movement sitting on electoral commissions, although it was not an authorized system. “Trusting them that they will not try to cheat is like believing in Putin's good intentions,” Matecki argued.
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The Prime Minister informed that in connection with this fact, the Internal Security Agency has filed a report of suspicion of committing a crime to the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw. The report, which is “the result of earlier signals from citizens and verification activities carried out by the Internal Security Agency”, was filed on the basis of Article 249 of the Penal Code concerning disruption of the election process. “The police are dealing with a separate issue – the violation of personal data in connection with this application; this issue will be included in the joint consideration by the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw,” Tusk added.
The spokesman for the Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office, Prosecutor Piotr Antoni Skiba, informed PAP that the ABW notification was received by the prosecutor's office on Tuesday. Shortly after this information, the prosecutor's office confirmed on portal X that it had received notifications (in the plural – PAP) regarding “an internet application that was allegedly used to verify certificates entitling one to vote in the presidential elections”. Due to the good of the proceedings, the prosecutor's office is not providing any more information.
The Prime Minister also referred to reports of possible irregularities in the vote counting in some district commissions and to Andrzej Duda's Monday post. The President stated that “there is an impression that the post-communists, together with the liberal-leftists, want to twist the last, already decided presidential elections in Poland” and thus “take away our freedom of choice”.
“I have not noticed any of the leaders of our coalition trying to stir up unrest or undermine the election results. We are rather trying to proceed in a calm and rational manner, as required by the constitution, the Electoral Code and common human decency,” Tusk said. “No one has the right – I say this also moved by the words of President Duda – to disregard the problem and say: 'oh, these are some unimportant things'” – he repeated.
The head of government stressed that as a citizen he expects “a reliable, honest and non-partisan proceeding in this matter from the National Electoral Commission, the National Electoral Office and the Supreme Court”. He added that from President Andrzej Duda and other politicians speaking out on this matter he would expect, above all, “respect for all voters”.
Tusk also reminded that election protests to the Supreme Court can be filed until Monday, June 16. As he said, he is aware that “many citizens may have witnessed strange things, but do not necessarily have the time or desire to formulate an election protest.” That is why, he added, the proxy of the electoral committee of the KO candidate Rafał Trzaskowski created the website protestwyborczy2025.pl, where one can file information about suspected irregularities.
He stressed that “the essence of democracy” is the lack of interference by unauthorized institutions, including the executive power, police, prosecutor's office, prime minister or ministers, in the elections and the vote counting process.
According to information provided by the media, irregularities in vote counting during the second round of the presidential elections occurred, among others, in the electoral commissions in Kraków and Mińsk Mazowiecki, where votes cast for both candidates were assigned the wrong way round, which resulted in Trzaskowski losing out. (PAP)
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