Pegasus. The Senate decided to appoint an emergency country for surveillance
The Senate decided on Wednesday on an extraordinary person to perform the action that fell on the function of the Pegasus system. In her appointment 52 voted, 45 dropped against, no one made any unauthorized votes from the vote. The first place of this person is to take place on Wednesday.
The Senate on Wednesday on, inter alia, various applications, the jurisdiction of extraordinary jurisdictions for matters related to the performance of operations on the Pegasus system.
It is about the Citizen Lab group, whose expertise showed that in Poland under surveillance by Pegasus were attorney Roman Giertych, prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek, and senator of the Civic Coalition Krzysztof Brejza. The fact that Krzysztof Brejza was under surveillance now also coexisted with Amnesty International.
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During the vote, the senators decided to appoint the state. 97 senators voted. There were 52 dreams for “for”, 45 for hands. Nobody was created against. The premiere will take place on Wednesday.
The group will consist of nine people. Its chairman is to be the head of the KO Senate club Marcin Bosacki.
Apart from the Bosacki club, the Civic Coalition will be represented by Magdalena Kochan and Sławomir Rybicki. The club of the Polish Coalition-PSL (Deputy Marshal Michał Kamiński), the Polish Socialist Party (Deputy Marshal Gabriela Morawska-Stanecka), Poland 2050 (Jacek Bury), and the Variable Senators (Wadim Tyszkiewicz) will get one place each.
Two vacancies are intended for the establishment of the PiS Senate company, however, Senate Deputy Speaker Marek Pęk (PiS) for the answer that his party’s senators will vote for the appointment of the Committee in the Senate and not in its participants.
Former Senate Marshal, PiS senator Stanisław Karczewski is checking that the commission will be “totally illegal”. “To a parody of parliamentarism. Nonsense. Confabulations. All sane people are now to keep a wide berth, ”he wrote.
What will the committee do?
The tasks of the Commission include:
1) Explanation of the disclosed cases of unlawful surveillance of services, incl. “Uploaded software” and violations of law in the application of audit controls; 2) assessment of the impact of violating the prohibition of violating the law in the election process in the Republic of Poland; 3) development, contribution and participation to a degree by the Senate of the initiative entitled the figure shows on 23 September 2019 by the Human Rights Defender and the group of experts operating at the Human Rights Defender
Although the Senate does not have investigative powers, the applicants are argued that the appointment of the reconversion, that the extraordinary props “is subject to transfer to the disclosure of outrageous information about the contradiction with the surveillance of several people, including senator Krzysztof Brejza at the time when he was the head of the election staff of the Civic Coalition. during the parliamentary elections in 2019 “. This also includes the prosecutor Wrzosek and attorney Giertych.
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The authors of the project recall that there will be no information with the place, “by anyone against anyone who has carried out proceedings concerning, even alleged persons, who committed the action”, the question is whether “the use of the Pegasus software is in every person at the stake by the services of the so-called controlled control ”.
It was emphasized that the commission “first of all” should assess the impact of the law on the impact of surveillance on the results of the 2019 elections.
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