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The events at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal have closed the pathway to snap elections. A big win for Donald Tusk?
On 30 October Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska suspended Tribunal President Bogdan Święczkowski for one month. The justices started this procedure themselves, without direct involvement from the government or the Minister of Justice. On 14 October five judges elected by the Sejm took their oaths before the parliament, as the Venice Commission’s interpretation allows, because President Karol Nawrocki had unlawfully refused to swear them in. Together with judges who are less partisan than the Law and Justice (PiS) appointees, they now form a majority.
This lets the judiciary repair itself without political interference. Under PiS, meddling in judicial affairs was the method, and it never produced a solution. Prime Minister Donald Tusk was away when the suspension decision was taken, and only the opposition and President Nawrocki politicised it. The current government may lose some support in the short run. In the long run, the move gives the judges legitimacy because they followed legal steps and four former Tribunal presidents backed them as the only way forward.
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