Polish audit office wants to probe PM over presidential election

FILE PHOTO: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a statement after meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italy's League party leader Matteo Salvini in Budapest, Hungary, April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) - The head of Poland's Supreme Audit Office said on Tuesday he had asked prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and other top government officials over last year's presidential election.

However, it was unclear whether prosecutors would launch such an investigation. The prosecutors' office in Warsaw was not immediately available for comment, while Morawiecki shrugged off the move, saying the government had acted constitutionally.