For the first time, the Sejm will have to determine whether a deputy wanted under an arrest warrant should be paid. And it turns out now, yes. As for where Marcin Romanowski could have escaped to, it was determined that it was probably not the headquarters of Opus Dei, as the organization officially declared that it would not hide him.
It has been nine days since the escape of Marcin Romanovsky, a law and justice member of parliament and former deputy minister of justice in the PiS government.
Prosecutors charge him with 11 charges related to the regulation of contests from the Justice Fund of the Ministry. – The services are looking everywhere, where it is possible to find a person who is hiding from the Polish justice system, – says Tomasz Simoniak, Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration of the Civil Alliance. The deputy has turned off his phones and is not at an address available to the police.
Bodnar: the search area should be expanded to Europe
Speculation about where the fugitive is hiding has forced Opus Dei, of which the PiS MP is a member, to issue a statement saying he is not staying at any of their centers. The Prelature claims to have no knowledge of his whereabouts.
So, where did Marcin Romanovsky escape? “I don't think he will run away,” PiS MP Zbigniew Kuzmyuk said in the Diet.
At some point, not only Polish services will look for a representative of law and justice. – Probably, this search area should be expanded to European countries – said Minister of Justice and Attorney General Adam Bodnar on Monday on TVN24.
Marcin Romanovsky is hiding, although he assured that he will not Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska/TVN Fact
A European Arrest Warrant can be issued at any time. Bartosz Lewandowski, Romanovsky's lawyer, filed a complaint against the court's decision on the temporary arrest of the member of parliament.
The court has seven days to respond to the complaint. “Every day of hiding from the Polish justice system worsens the situation and lowers its morale,” explains Minister Tomasz Siemoniak.
Why is Romanovsky in a comfortable situation?
Marcin Romanovsky is a deputy. The three-day session of the Seimas will begin on Wednesday. – I checked the rules about what Marshal Holounia should do in this situation. Can he assume in this situation that Marcin Romanovsky is still a deputy? And if he is hiding, how can he fulfill his duties as a deputy? – asks Adam Bodnar. – It turns out that there are no such regulations on this topic at all, because no one predicted such a situation, – he adds.
Since the deputy is free and not in custody, nothing can be done. As we hear in the Sejm, Romanovsky is paid until he is arrested, and part of the money is kept for absences.
READ ALSO: Where is Romanovsky? Opus Dei: not here, deputy Romanovsky is therefore in a very convenient situation, because wherever he does not stay, both his salary and the deputy's allowance go to his account. If the member of the parliament is not present at the session of the Seimas, only a minor punishment awaits him.
“If he is not present and has the appropriate level, his salary will be reduced,” says Krzysztof Bosak, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm from the Confederation. The Sejm Chancellery is currently conducting legal analyses: the status of a lawyer who was wanted under an arrest warrant. , how is it?
The “Law and Justice” deputy hides like a common criminal, and all taxpayers contribute to his escape. So much for civil disobedience, supposedly in the name of higher causes.
Main photo source: Paweł Supernak/PAP
