Poland’s former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro has said he will not return to the country “until the rule of law is restored,” after parliament voted last week to strip him of his legal immunity so that he can face 26 criminal charges.
Ziobro’s lawyer told prosecutors that his client is prepared to be questioned abroad—either in Hungary, where he is currently staying, or in Belgium, where he has recently lived.
Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz rejected that proposal on Wednesday, insisting that any questioning “should take place in Poland, not in a location designated by the person who is to testify.”
Ziobro, who led the Justice Ministry from 2015 to 2023 under the previous conservative government, denies all the allegations. He has accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s liberal administration of pursuing a “political vendetta,” calling it a “criminal gang” that is “committing crime after crime.”
