A former Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, was charged Thursday with exceeding his powers when he ordered a presidential election to be carried out solely with postal votes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prosecutors say there were no legal grounds to organize the presidential election of 2020 in that way. In the end the election Morawiecki wanted to hold in May was postponed and conducted at polling stations several weeks later. The cost to taxpayers of organizing the postal vote which didn't happen is estimated to be at least 70 million zlotys ($17.5).
