The group, led by prosecutor Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, will not conduct investigations itself but will oversee the work of regional prosecutors.
During a press briefing, spokesperson Anna Adamiak confirmed that Adam Bodnar, Poland’s Justice Minister and Prosecutor General, will refuse to present an official position on the validity of the presidential election if the decision is issued by the Supreme Court’s Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs.
Polish Prosecutor General questions Supreme Court chamber's legitimacy to rule on 2025 presidential election results
This chamber, created under the previous populist Law and Justice (PiS) government as part of controversial judicial reforms that defied the Polish constitution, is widely seen as lacking independence.
Bodnar has formally requested that all judges from this chamber be excluded and that the case instead be handled by the Supreme Court’s Labour and Social Insurance Chamber, which is viewed as more impartial.
Poland's Prosecutor General argues that the judges sitting in the chamber do not meet the standards of an independent court, and therefore the entire body fails to satisfy constitutional requirements of judicial impartiality.
Prosecutors launch review into flagged polling station results
According to the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, prosecutors will examine results from 296 local electoral commissions identified by analysts from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.
While researcher Krzysztof Kontek claims the second-round tally could differ by several hundred thousand votes, two other experts - Andrzej Torój (from the same university) and Jacek Haman (from University of Warsaw) - acknowledged irregularities but concluded that any recount would not change the overall outcome.
Tight Polish presidential race marred by reports of voting irregularities
The National Electoral Commission reported that Karol Nawrocki, backed by the populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, received 10,606,877 votes, while pro-European centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski secured 10,237,286 - a margin of over 369,000 ballots.
Meanwhile, more than 300,000 people have signed a grassroots petition calling for a nationwide recount of the June 1 presidential runoff election.
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