Other top officials facing a summons to appear before the commission include former PiS Prime Minister Beata Szydło, former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, and former PiS MPs Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik — who headed the interior ministry and were recently pardoned by President Andrzej Duda following their conviction in an old corruption case.
Kamiński denounced the commission as “a political game with Poland’s security,” adding: “The secret service always acted in accordance with the law. I look forward to presenting the truth to the public as soon as possible.”
Magdalena Sroka, the MP heading the commission, told reporters after the first meeting of the panel: “Too long we’ve been lied to about Pegasus by PiS and we’re going to get to the bottom of it now.”
Krzysztof Brejza, an MEP for Tusk’s Civic Coalition whose phone was allegedly hacked when he ran the party’s campaign in 2019, will also appear.
“This commission will determine not just the people responsible for the use of Pegasus but also [the] people who were attacked: politicians, lawyers, journalists, and ordinary people,” Sroka said.
