The National Election Commission rejected the financial report of Law and Justice for 2023. Politicians of this party have already explained this decision. “The sole purpose of receiving our subsidies is to increase our chances in the presidential elections,” PiS club leader Mariusz Blaszczak said.
On Monday, the National Electoral Commission rejected PiS' financial report for 2023. The head of the National Electoral Commission, Sylvester Marciniak, informed the Supreme Court about the right to file an appeal against the decision of the National Electoral Commission within seven days. He added that the Supreme Court should consider this appeal within 60 days. PiS politicians explained the Commission's decision.
Blaszczak on the “single goal of withdrawing subsidies”
Former prime minister, PiS member of parliament Mateusz Morawiecki wrote in an article about the tool of political struggle.
Mariusz Blaszczak, head of the PiS club, said that “the only purpose of receiving our subsidies is to increase our chances in the presidential elections.” The politician said that “all those responsible for this violation of the law will face the consequences.”
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PiS spokesman Rafal Bochenek also explained the NEC's decision. “The decision of political appointments in the National Election Commission of the current coalition on December 13 shows that the government's plan is to eliminate the only real opposition in Poland with illegal and administrative actions. They know that they will not win in a democratic and honest way. That's why they broke the law. violate and act in a fait method that it is difficult to talk about fair presidential elections in Poland – the head of state wrote on the platform.
“The decisions in question are the introduction of an autocratic system in Poland, which is personally controlled by Tusk. It has nothing to do with democracy and political pluralism. It is a rejection of the standards that work in the civilized world,” he added.
MEP Tobias Bočenski, one of the party's potential presidential candidates, said the “disgusting” and “financially oriented PiS” decisions of the National Electoral Commission “are a mixture of fear – of defeat in the presidential elections – with an authoritarian desire to destroy the opposition”. . “We're going to hit them anyway, and 'Donald's going to get mad,'” he said.
In response to the National Election Commission's decision, PiS MP and former Minister of State Assets Jacek Sasin asked: “If you can illegally defund your biggest rival, why compete honestly in the elections?” The PiS politician said: “This is a fighting democracy. That which fights against the principles of democracy.”
MP Zbigniew Boguchki, explaining the decision of the National Electoral Commission in an interview with TVN24 reporter, said that this decision is “really a continuation of the attack on democracy”. – Because this is not an attack on Law and justice. I remind you that our party was supported by 7,600,000 Poles, and if you want to delegitimize the biggest party, which is still the biggest opposition force in Poland today, we are only dealing with an attack on democracy, and in fact, this prospect of elections “The presidency is very important here,” he said.
– Donald Tusk sees that it will no longer be possible for his candidate or himself to win these elections, so he will look for ways to – in short – make the election campaign difficult or even impossible. We will definitely not give up, we will definitely not give up, we will fight legally, but we ask the Poles to support Law and justice, and therefore to support democracy, that is, there are equal opportunities, there is for political. pluralism, he said.
The National Electoral Commission rejected PiS's financial report for 2023. Boguchki: this is a continuation of the attack on democracyTVN24
PiS is not the first party to lose its subsidy
When PiS was in power, the National Electoral Commission, among other things, rejected the reports of the PSL and the New Right Congress for 2013. The decision of the National Electoral Commission of December 22, 2014 indicated that the reason for the rejection of the report was the actions of the PSL district board in Sandomie is the one who “decided and implemented the collection of party funds outside of his bank account.” According to the National Electoral Commission, the People's Party did not include PLN 17,498 in their reports, and in 2013 they reported a total income of PLN 8,523,460.
The National Electoral Commission questioned the KNP's report because the party's comments and financial documents attached to them show that some of the expenses were covered by cash from New Right activists' own funds and then reimbursed from the party's funds. . According to the commission, this happened several times, in the amount of several tens to hundreds of zlotys. In one case, it was found that the activist of the KHP party spent 640 soums more than the money he received from the party. Moreover, the National Electoral Commission pointed to confusion and ambiguities in the list of payments to the party. According to him, in the documents submitted by KNP, among other things, it is clear who paid and who was only an intermediary.
However, in mid-July 2016, the commission rejected the report of Novochesna and Razem Party due to “violation of the Election Code” (Razem Party for the same reason, but on a smaller scale). Both parties received funds from other sources, except the election fund. “In the case of the Razem party, it was ten thousand zlotys transferred directly from the party's current account, while the election committee of Novochesna Rysard Petru received almost two million zlotys from the party's current account.” The court explained in a statement at the time.
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