Parliament speaker Szymon Hołownia is being interviewed as a witness in Warsaw’s district prosecutor’s office, with Constitutional Tribunal chairman Bogdan Święczkowski and Ordo Juris attorney Bartosz Lewandowski also present.
Speaker in the Prosecutor’s Office
Szymon Hołownia is currently being questioned by the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office as a witness regarding his remarks about a “coup d’état.”
Bogdan Święczkowski, chairman of the Constitutional Tribunal, and Bartosz Lewandowski, a representative of the National Council of the Judiciary, are also at the office.
Lewandowski has been granted the right to participate and ask questions. He emphasized that the proceeding is confidential, so he will not disclose the content of his inquiries.
The prosecutor noted that the interrogation would be very lengthy.
Hołownia on the “Coup d’État”
During a late July appearance on Polsat News, Hołownia claimed that “multiple proposals were made to carry out a coup d’état.”
He added that while the term may not meet legal criteria, he uses it to describe a situation in which a president is elected but he “doesn’t like the president and might refuse to swear him in.”
He specifically referred to the August 6 ceremony in which the newly elected President, Karol Nawrocki, took the oath before the National Assembly.
Announcement of the Hearing
On July 29, prosecutor Piotr Antoni Skiba announced that a hearing of Speaker Szymon Hołowni would take place within the next days or weeks.
He said the timing depends on availability and stressed that the prosecutor’s office does not wish to obstruct Parliament or the speaker’s work.
The prosecutor’s office expressed keen interest in what the speaker might reveal about any incitement to a potential coup d’état crime.