Request for waiver of the immunity of Maciej Wąsik

The European Parliament decided to waive the immunity of Maciej Wąsik.

On 29 July 2024, the Prosecutor General of Poland transmitted a request for waiver of the immunity of Maciej Wąsik. The request stated that Maciej Wąsik has not complied with the final judgment handed down against him by the Warsaw Regional Court on 20 December 2023, by which he was barred from holding public office for five years, on the grounds that Maciej Wąsik exercised his mandate as a member of the Polish Sejm by participating in the session of the Polish Sejm held on 21 December 2023, in particular by voting and participating in a meeting held by the Sejm’s Administration and Internal Affairs Committee.

Parliament considered that the alleged offence is not related to any opinion or vote cast by Maciej Wąsik in the exercise of his duties as a Member of the European Parliament.

Furthermore, Parliament found no evidence of fumus persecutionis, which is to say factual elements which indicate that the intention underlying the legal proceedings may be to damage a Member’s political activity and thus the European Parliament.