Jo Harper
21 April 2026•Update: 21 April 2026
The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin, in eastern Poland, on Tuesday indicted the deputy head of the Polish president’s chancellery for forging signatures on local election lists in 2014, Polish media reported.
Prosecutors charged Adam Andruszkiewicz, a close aide to President Karol Nawrocki, with falsifying signatures required to register an electoral list in the Podlaskie region while running for local election.
According to prosecutors, the case stems from local elections in 2014, when nationalist activists collected signatures to register a list for the Podlaskie regional assembly.
Investigators believe that some of the signatures were forgeries. The investigation was reopened after years of inactivity due to changes in Poland's prosecution service following the 2023 parliamentary election, in which the ruling nationalist party, Law and Justice (PiS), lost.
Andruszkiewicz has denied the allegations. In comments carried by Polish media, he called the case “a completely trumped-up fairy tale” and argued that it is politically motivated.
He said he never forged signatures and accused the current government of using prosecutors against political opponents.
The case is politically sensitive because Andruszkiewicz is one of the highest-ranking officials in the presidential chancellery and a prominent figure associated with the nationalist right.
He was previously an MP for the anti-establishment movement Kukiz’15 and later allied himself with PiS. He became deputy head of the presidential chancellery after Nawrocki took office.
The indictment is the latest in a series of investigations reopened by prosecutors into actions by politicians and officials linked to the former governing camp.
Since Prime Minister Donald Tusk returned to power in late 2023, his government has pledged to review cases that it says were neglected or politically blocked under the previous administration. Critics on the right say the new investigations amount to political revenge.
