The National Electoral Commission analyses PiS financial report. The Commission received documents from NASK

National Electoral Commission adjourned the meeting until August 29 regarding the financial report of the PiS electoral committee from the parliamentary elections. The Commission justified this by the need to contact two state institutions: the Government Legislation Centre (RCL) and the Scientific and Academic Computer Network (NASK), to clarify doubts.

PKW Chairman Sylwester Marciniak explained that the letters sent earlier from RCL lacked detailed calculations regarding the salaries and scope of activities of the people employed there. The NASK materials lacked calculations regarding the value of the reports.

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Both institutions were supposed to submit the documents by last Friday. On Friday at noon, the NEC spokesman confirmed Transfer of materials by RCLIn the afternoon, just before 4 p.m., documents were also received from the Scientific and Academic Computer Network, as NEC spokesman Marcin Chmielnicki reported on Monday.

He noted that the National Electoral Commission now has time to review the documents, and the PiS electoral committee representative must also respond to them. Khmelnytsky added that no other new materials have been submitted to the National Electoral Commission, nor has the Commission requested additional information.

The NASK case concerns a public task carried out in 2022-2023, consisting in monitoring disinformation content and fake news available in social media, financed from a special-purpose subsidy agreement for over PLN 18 million.

In the letter submitted to the National Electoral Commission by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, one can find information according to which from 20 September 2023 to 15 October 2023, the Ministry of Digital Affairs commissioned NASK to prepare reports on the “credibility of Law and Justice” and to monitor the media in this matter. According to the Chancellery, the reports “could serve the current activities of the political party” and at the same time were financed from public funds.

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In the case of documents from the RCL requested by the National Electoral Commission, it concerns materials concerning the employment of six people. They were not supposed to provide any work, but only to conduct the election campaign for the Sejm in 2023 of the then head of the RCL Krzysztof Szczucki (PiS).

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On Friday, the National Electoral Commission also received a notification regarding doubts regarding the financing of the 2023 election campaign, submitted by the Minister of Justice and the Prosecutor General. Adam Bodnar. This is a clip from September last year, in which the then Minister of Justice, the leader of Sovereign Poland Zbigniew Ziobro announced tougher penalties for the most serious crimes. Bodnar pointed to the likelihood of violating the rules for conducting and financing an election campaign, including by the fact that the person conducting the narrative was simultaneously the person conducting the campaign and the leader of the group running in the elections.

Earlier, in early June, Bodnar asked the National Electoral Commission to verify whether the expenditure made from the Justice Fund during the 2023 parliamentary election campaign was in line with the provisions of the Electoral Code – through the prism of compliance with the principles of financing election campaigns.

At its meeting on 31 July, the National Electoral Commission adopted the financial reports of eight election committees, with only the report of the Left Committee being accepted without reservations.