“It is hard to anticipate the president to be satisfied with specified solutions,” said Małgorzata Paprock, Head of the Chancellery of the president of the Republic of Poland. Her words referred to the alleged emergency bill adopted by the legislature on Wednesday.
The legislature adopted on Wednesday without amendment so-called the Emergency Act, according to which the president is to be elected in 2025 15 judges with the oldest seniority in the ultimate Court, not – as yet – Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs SN.
The bill will now fall on President's desk. In the Wednesday edition of “Guest of Events” Margaret Paprocka concluded that the opinion Andrzej Duda the proposed provisions should not surprise. "It is hard to require the president to deny his position consistently presented since 2018: to stand a wall behind judges appointed besides after 2017," she said.
Emergency Act. Paprocka: It is known that this is about denying the position of judges
According to the President's Chancellery chief, Duda “held up for independence, status” of these judges. In its view, the law adopted on Wednesday ‘diametrically different from the extension and the original Proposals by Mr. Marshal Holownia‘. present the cards are clear. You know what I mean. It's all about denial of the position of judges. The point is that elected judges should settle electoral matters – she assessed.
Paprocka stated that there was no way to tell what precisely the president's decision would be, but stated that "It is hard to anticipate the president to be satisfied with specified solutions." – Especially since so far no of the decisions of the Extraordinary Chamber of Control of SN concerning the election by anyone have been contested, until the issue of backing of the Law and Justice Office. Then the dark clouds began to gather over this chamber," she said.
Article updated.
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