Poland's ruling party targeted over ex-communist top member
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Poland's ruling anti-communist party has faced bitter accusations of inconsistency over a prominent role that a communist-era prosecutor has in the party leadership.
At the heart of the controversy, ruling Law and Justice party lawmaker Stanislaw Piotrowicz denied Wednesday he ever charged or persecuted any pro-democracy activists when he was a high-ranking prosecutor and communist party member under communist-imposed martial law in the 1980s. He insisted that he helped Solidarity activists.
The TVN24 station has shown an indictment against a Solidarity activist, Antoni Pikula, signed by Piotrowicz.
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Opposition lawmakers have asked an ethics commission to punish Piotrowicz for denying facts, and questioned the ruling conservative party's moral standards.
Law and Justice has made it a priority to condemn communism, ousted in 1989, and to remove from public life communist-era activists.