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EU Should Enlarge, Even Out of Despair – COMMENTARY
3 October 2024
In the latest turn of the Pegasus scandal investigations, it was sensationally revealed that Marek Suski was under surveillance by his own party colleagues. This is especially poor timing for Jarosław Kaczyński, who is desperately trying to maintain the narrative that PiS is a unified front and a leading political force ahead of the EP elections.
Poland’s European elections will take place under the shadow of the Pegasus scandal.
This is because the completion of the Law and Justice party’s election lists has just been disrupted by the news that Marek Suski – one of the most important Law and Justice politicians – was under surveillance using the notorious Israeli spy program, which the Law and Justice government purchased in 2017 and, in violation of Polish law, used to gather evidence on its opponents.
So far, the list of the illegally invigilated includes the Chief of Staff of the Civic Coalition’s election campaign Krzysztof Brejza, and the information obtained from his phone was used by the Law and Justice party to discredit the opposition in party-controlled public media.