PiS MP Robert Telus, suspended over a land deal controversy, is reinstated; party cites lack of evidence.
Reinstatement Confirmed
Robert Telus, a PiS MP and former agriculture minister, stated he had his party rights restored. “I knew from the start I was innocent, and there were and are no charges in this matter,” he told “Fakt.”
He discussed his reinstatement with party leader Jarosław Kaczyński both before and after the decision. “The Prezes had no doubts, he trusted everything was in order, but had to verify it. He is uncompromising; if I had done anything wrong, I wouldn’t still be in the party,” Telus emphasized.
PiS spokesman Rafał Bochenek confirmed Telus’s reinstatement “following an internal investigation, due to the lack of his guilt and responsibility for the situation,” PAP reported.
Land Sale Scandal
In October 2025, Wp.pl revealed that during PiS rule in 2023, 160 hectares of state land in Zabłotnia, Mazowsze, was sold to a private company’s vice president for under 23 million złoty. The land was earmarked for Central Communication Port (CPK) infrastructure. The case is under prosecutor investigation; the plot was resold to the state treasury in December 2024.
Politicians’ Positions
Autumn 2025 saw Jarosław Kaczyński suspend both Telus and former deputy agriculture minister Rafał Romanowski from party membership.
“I had no knowledge whatsoever of the sale of plot 87/1 in Zabłotnia. My signature doesn’t appear on any documents concerning this matter; it never reached my desk,” Telus stated in a declaration. He added that CPK-related investments could reclaim the land immediately at the original sale price without state loss.
Romanowski, meanwhile, stressed he “always advocated for the protection of state land from fire sales,” viewing it as “a strategic national resource to be protected and used for future generations.”