President to meet with sacked National Prosecutor on Monday
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, will meet with Dariusz Barski, the national prosecutor who has been removed from office by the justice minister.
On Friday, the Justice Ministry led by Adam Bodnar, who also holds the post of prosecutor general, announced that, Dariusz Barski is no longer the head of the National Prosecutor's Office.
The ministry said that the return of Barski to active service in 2022 by the former justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, "was carried out without any legal basis."
At the same time, Bodnar appointed Jacek Bilewicz as acting National Prosecutor.
Wojciech Kolarski, a presidential minister, told the Polsat News broadcaster on Sunday that Duda will meet with Barski and his associates on Monday morning at the Presidential Palace.
Kolarski quoted Duda who said that the steps taken by Bodnar without involvement from the prime minister and president are "violation of law."
"There is an act on the prosecutor's office, this act clearly states what the procedure for dismissing a national prosecutor is, what the procedure for appointing a national prosecutor is, this procedure has been violated," Kolarski said.
Hence the meeting is "to talk about what happened, about this attempted attack on the independent prosecutor's office," he added.
Kolarski went on to say that "we are dealing with a serious crisis in the country... under the rule of Prime Minister Donald Tusk the law of revenge rules." (PAP)
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