Poland will seek answers about how a \u200bformer minister wanted on abuse of \u200bpower charges managed to travel from \u200cHungary to \u200bthe United States, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, after Warsaw’s hopes of bringing him to trial were thwarted. Former Polish \u200cJustice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and his deputy Marcin Romanowski were granted asylum in Hungary by Viktor Orban, but Warsaw had hoped the former prime minister’s defeat by pro-EU rival Peter Magyar in \u200can April election meant they would soon be brought back to Poland.<\/p>\n
They had been \u200cstripped of their passports. The whereabouts of Romanowski were unclear. “We will ask both the United States and Hungary for the legal and factual basis on which Zbigniew Ziobro left Hungarian territory,” Polish foreign ministry spokesperson Maciej Wewior told \u2060Reuters.<\/p>\n
“And \u200bspecifically, what document allowed \u2060him to cross the border and gave him the right to enter the United States… We hope that this \u2060situation will be resolved and that it will not affect the very good relations between the \u200bUnited States and Poland.” The U.S. embassy in Warsaw and the Hungarian foreign ministry did not \u2060immediately reply to emailed requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Ziobro told private Polish broadcaster TV Republika on Sunday that he was in \u2060the \u200bU.S., confirming earlier media reports. The station, which supports the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party under which Ziobro served as a minister, said he would work for them as a \u2060political commentator. Ziobro is the architect of court reforms that the European Union said had reduced \u2060judicial independence in Poland \u2060during the PiS government’s rule from 2015 to 2023. He faces 26 charges primarily relating to misuse of money from a fund intended \u200cto help victims \u200cof crime for political gain.<\/p>\n
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