Suski Affair Puts a Lid on Law and Justice Election Campaign – QUICK TAKE

It shows there is a brutal struggle for influence taking place within the PiS party

29 April 2024

Bartosz Wieliński

Marcin Król Fellow

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.

Suski affair sheds new light on Pegasus scandal

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.

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Bartosz Wieliński

Marcin Król Fellow

Bartosz Wieliński is a Marcin Król Fellow 2024 at Visegrad Insight. He joined the editorial staff of Gazeta Wyborcza in 1998 as an almost 20-year-old intern. In 2005 he became a Wyborcza’s correspondent in Germany and in 2019 was promoted to its deputy editor-in-chief. He most enjoys covering Germany, especially its history. He has published two books: “Bad Germans” and “Hitler’s War of the Doctors.” Studied political science and Journalism at the University of Silesia and at the International School of Political Science in Katowice. He also graduated from postgraduate studies in diplomacy at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

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