
Prime Minister Donald Tusk revealed fragments of testimony regarding promises of pardon, while the Sejm failed to overturn President Karol Nawrocki's veto of the bill on cryptoassets.
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President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the bill on cryptoassets on June 11, arguing that excessive regulations could push Polish companies abroad.
Before Friday's vote in the Sejm, Donald Tusk read a fragment of the report of the testimony of the main witness in the Zondacrypto scandal. It follows - according to the account presented by the Prime Minister - that the witness was to receive a promise to arrange for a pardon from a person identified in the testimony as "Mr. X".
"The most important thing in this cooperation was that Mr.
The Prime Minister presented these words during the debate preceding the vote on the presidential veto to the act regulating the crypto-asset market.
President Karol Nawrocki commented on the Prime Minister's words in a post on the X platform.
"Mr. Prime Minister, I thought we had already learned this lesson. But I will repeat: if Mr.
On Friday, the Sejm voted to reject Karol Nawrocki's veto to the bill regarding the crypto-asset market. Ultimately, the parliament failed to re-pass the bill. It took 25 votes to override the presidential veto. 442 MPs took part in the vote. 241 MPs voted to reject the veto, 198 MPs voted against, and three MPs from the Democracy group abstained.
The following clubs: KO, Lewica, PSL-Trzecia Droga, Centrum and Polski 2050 voted to reject the veto. The following clubs: PiS, Rozwoju Plus and Konfederacja were against. Three non-affiliated MPs voted in favor of re-adopting the act. These are Paulina Matysiak, Joanna Mucha and Paweł Zalewski. Janusz Kowalski voted against, and Marcin Józefaciuk abstained.
This was Nawrocki's third veto regarding regulations regulating the cryptocurrency market. The president vetoed the government bill on June 11.
Nawrocki previously argued that the proposed regulations excessively regulate the market and may lead to Polish companies from the cryptocurrency industry moving abroad.

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