Parliamentary leaders Włodzimierz Czarzasty and Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska have returned the confidential annex to the WSI liquidation report to the Presidential Palace without opening it, citing constitutional concerns and national security risks.
Refusal to process the report
Last Friday, Sejm Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty announced that neither he nor Senate Speaker Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska would provide an opinion on the annex to the Military Information Services (WSI) liquidation report. He confirmed that the documents would be returned to the President unopened.
Senate Speaker Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska stated that she had already returned the package to the President, noting that providing an opinion on the document would be unconstitutional. She emphasized that there is currently no legal framework to comply with the 2006 law regarding the public disclosure of this report in a manner consistent with the Constitution.
Constitutional and security concerns
Czarzasty characterized the government’s handling of the document as a “surprise egg” and a significant error by the President, arguing that revealing the names of Polish agents—even in anonymized form—during the ongoing war in Ukraine is irresponsible and undermines the trust of international allies. He declared the matter definitively closed.
In her official statement, Kidawa-Błońska noted that no government or president over the past two decades has updated the 2006 legislation to provide the constitutional guarantees required by the Constitutional Tribunal. She stated that she would not validate actions that could weaken state structures or cause financial and non-material harm during a time of security threats.
A symbolic protest
During a press conference, Czarzasty explained that he included a gift for Zbigniew Bogucki inside the returned package: a copy of the Constitution. Czarzasty claimed that Bogucki had demonstrated a lack of familiarity with the document, and he hoped the unique copy would serve him well.
