Polish lawmakers passed a bill on Friday to create a commission to look into Russian influence in the country, in what the opposition says is a government attempt to launch a witch hunt against political opponents in an election year.
Ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS) say that liberal opposition party Civic Platform (PO) allowed Poland to become dangerously dependent on Russian fossil fuels when the PO was in government from 2007 to 2015, raising questions about whether members of the PO were under Moscow's sway.
PO rejects this criticism and opposition figures have labelled the bill "Lex Tusk," using the Latin term for "law." They say it aims to eliminate PO leader and former prime minister Donald Tusk from the political scene ahead of elections scheduled for October or November.
