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Does the Constitutional Tribunal have new judges? Does the event organized by Sejm Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty complete the formalities of appointing new Constitutional Tribunal members? – This wasn't an oath, not before the Sejm, not even a legal one. It was an event that attempts to imitate this procedure. The Sejm wasn't even convened at the time, nor was it in session. Furthermore, there was no institutional space in which an act of such f…
The controversy surrounding the election and the taking of the oath by six new judges of the Constitutional Tribunal shows that the presidential center not only does not intend to help the government in repairing the rule of law in Poland, but will even trip it up wherever possible.
"This is a truly good day for democracy," Waldemar Żurek, Minister of Justice, emphasized in an interview with PAP after the pseudo-swearing-in ceremony of judges elected to the Constitutional Tribunal. "I hope that we are finally restoring the Tribunal for the citizen," he argued.
The president resorted to lawlessness, and the state responded legally – this is how Minister Waldemar Żurek assessed the oath of office of Constitutional Tribunal judges in the Sejm. He added that the oaths were taken before the nation. "So, really, now either the president will try to stabilize the situation or he will inflame it," Żurek noted. The minister assessed that the president is not the king of the sun.
"Today, six legally elected judges of the Constitutional Tribunal took the oath before the President of the Republic of Poland. Congratulations," wrote Waldemar Żurek on X.
Newly elected Constitutional Tribunal judges took their oaths in the Sejm on Thursday. "This is a truly good day for democracy. I hope we are finally restoring the Tribunal to the benefit of the citizen," said Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek.
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