"Instead of gratitude, you show them contempt." Bodnar writes to the president on the judges

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"Instead of gratitude for the faithful to his appointment of judges, you show them contempt and incite society towards them" - wrote Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar in a letter to Andrzej Duda. According to him, the president is mocking the Constitution. "Never before has anyone of specified rank in Poland threatened judges so openly" - added the minister.

Written Scan Adam Bodnar posted on his profile on the X platform. "Today I sent a letter to the president of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda in consequence to fresh words that, in my opinion, should never fall from his mouth" - Bodnar wrote.

On Wednesday, president Duda asked in an interview with the Jagiellonian Club, the Open Conservation and the fresh Deal about the request to carry out a "reset" in the justice strategy criticized part of the judge's environment, which, as he said, "speaks after 1 organization to the political dispute". He appealed to them to retaliate and reset, because, as he said, without him, it would end with the fact that "all these people will should be expelled from the judge's state, without the right to rest."

– late 1 man said to me very brutally: "Do you know why there is so much betrayal and brazenness in Poland? due to the fact that no 1 has been hanged for treason in a long time." This is terrible, but in these words there is truth," said president Duda.

Adam Bodnar's letter to Andrzej Duda

Bodnar’s letter began with a reminder Article 2 of the Polish Constitution declaring that "Poland is simply a democratic legal state that implements the principles of social justice." "A surprise may be that the highest guardian of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland mocks this basic constitutional principle" - Bodnar wrote referring to the quoted article of the Basic Act.

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Addressing the President, he pointed out that "he is amazed that an educated lawyer - a doctor of law and a postgraduate of a renowned university - undermines the fundamental principles of judicial independence, confirmed by the judgments of the general courts, the ultimate Court, the ultimate Administrative Court, as well as the independent Constitutional Court". "He wonders why he continues to question the case law of the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, which, after all, form the Polish legal order" - he added Head of MS.

In Bodnar's opinion, "this, however, is nothing against unparalleled threats against judges who would prompt them to quit respect for the Constitution." "Never before in Poland, endowed with specified a powerful democratic mandate as the President, has he threatened the judges so openly, straight undermining their powers, which warrant their independence" - the minister emphasized in a letter to the President.

Adam Bodnar: Those words cannot be ignored

"These words cannot be ignored. They are a continuation of the attack on the justice strategy coordinated by the President's political camp. Its manifestation was subsequent signatures submitted by the president under laws adopted in 2016-2023, which gradually dismantled the independency of the judiciary. The consequence is simply a crisis in the justice strategy and expanding uncertainty and insecurity of citizens" - Bodnar's letter states.

According to the MS chief, the president "had a chance to heal and repair the situation". "You could have taken real action to reconstruct constitutional order. However, you preferred to deepen confusion and uncertainty over ensuring the legal safety of citizens. alternatively of getting active in rebuilding trust in courts, the President, under the dictate of ad hoc political goals, preferred to attack honest citizens of the Republic, including memorials for the fight for judicial independence" - Bodnar pointed out.

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"Instead of gratitude to the faithful, JudgesYou show them contempt and incite them to society. The city builds consent and 'to pass on to future generations, which is valuable from the more than a 1000 years' achievements of our Homeland, you regret, in a inexpensive historical motion that it has forever renounced sapphires and barbarous retaliation, in accordance with the Christian heritage which you have professed to it' - stressed the minister.

Bodnar besides recalled that president Duda had late received Order of Liberty - the highest honour from the Ukrainian authorities. "But it should be remembered that erstwhile Ukraine is striving for membership of the European Union, including with the support of the President, in its words you are questioning the quintessentialness of European values - the regulation of law and the independency of the judiciary" - wrote the MS chief.

On Thursday, president Duda commented Deputy Head of MS Dariusz Mazur. As he assessed the President's words are far from imagining what he has on the way he holds office. "It is simply a violent language, undoubtedly, and it is simply a language that can encourage a certain part of the public's opinion to respond negatively, and it surely makes a large contribution to undermining the legitimacy of the branch of power, which is the judicial authority," he told journalists.

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