{"id":192761,"date":"2025-06-17T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192761\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:05:09","slug":"tusk-weighed-in-on-polish-politics-while-running-eu-institution-leaked-audio-reveals-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192761\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusk weighed in on Polish politics while running EU institution, leaked audio reveals \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civic Coalition lost the 2019 parliamentary election, and Schetyna did not run for reelection for party leadership in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the same phone call, Giertych also said he had suggested that the party promote Ma\u0142gorzata Kidawa-B\u0142o\u0144ska, to which Tusk responded that it was a very good idea. Kidawa-B\u0142o\u0144ska ended up being the party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-election-opposition-chooses-a-candidate-for-pm-malgorzata-kidawa-blonska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">candidate for prime minister<\/a> in the 2019 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furious response<\/p>\n<p>Giertych <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GiertychRoman\/status\/1933843143364894971\" target=\"_blank\">alleges<\/a> the conversation was recorded \u201cas part of an illegal operation\u201d through Israel\u2019s Pegasus spyware, which the previous government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/how-europe-became-wild-west-spyware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegedly used to spy on political opponents<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recording of conversations between a lawyer and his clients, the failure to destroy them, the removal of copies of the conversations from the [Central Anti-Corruption Bureau], their transfer to the media, and the publication of these conversations are very serious crimes,\u201d Giertych<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GiertychRoman\/status\/1933843143364894971\" target=\"_blank\"> wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cThose guilty of all these crimes will be punished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current Civic Coalition-led coalition government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-pegasus-spyware-probe-law-and-justice-pis-jaroslaw-kaczynski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has launched a probe<\/a> into whether PiS officials misused Pegasus software to spy on their political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Tusk has not commented on the recordings as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Civic Coalition lost the 2019 parliamentary election, and Schetyna did not run for reelection for party leadership in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11576,5898,2000,299,5187,1699,770,78723,18241,3205],"class_list":{"0":"post-192761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-brussels-bubble","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-poland","15":"tag-polish-election-2019","16":"tag-polish-politics","17":"tag-spyware"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700977989006828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}