The interrogation of Szymon Hołownia, the Sejm Marshal, is approaching as the prosecution sets a possible date in early October, focusing on his remarks about a potential state coup.
Interrogation of Szymon Hołownia, the Sejm Marshal
The spokesperson for the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office, Piotr Antoni Skiba, stated in an interview with Polish Press Agency that Hołownia’s interrogation has been scheduled for the first half of October. Skiba had previously indicated that the prosecution is “very interested in what the Sejm Marshal has stated regarding incitement to a potential state coup.”
Investigation into the State Coup
The request for Hołownia’s interrogation was submitted by lawyer Bartosz Lewandowski on behalf of the National Council of the Judiciary, a figure associated with Ordo Iuris. According to a statement on portal X, the request was made during the ongoing investigation by the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office into the alleged “state coup.” Recall that several months ago, President of the Supreme Court Bogdan Święczkowski filed a report about a potential state coup, which he claimed the current Polish authorities might have committed.
Szymon Hołownia on the State Coup
In July, Sejm Marshal Szymon Hołownia told a reporter on Polsat News’ program “Gość Wydarzeń” that “multiple individuals had proposed to him to stage a state coup.” He clarified, “I call it a state coup. Obviously, it likely does not meet the legal criteria for such an act, but I refer to it as a coup, meaning a situation where the president is elected, and I say, ‘I don’t like this president, so maybe I won’t swear him in.’” Hołownia added that “politicians, lawyers, and various people frustrated by the results of the presidential elections” approached him, emphasizing that “just because the candidate I preferred lost does not mean the state can be suspended or elections repeated ad infinitum.”
State Coup in the Criminal Code
A state coup is defined in the Polish Criminal Code. According to the Code, “any person who, with the intent to deprive the Republic of Poland of its independence, detach a part of its territory, or alter its constitutional system by force, engages in activities in agreement with others aimed directly at achieving this goal, shall be liable to a penalty of imprisonment for not less than ten years or a life sentence.”
Source: Gazeta, https://www.tokfm.pl/Tokfm/7, https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/polsat#anchorLink, https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/0
