
The dispute over power in the Constitutional Tribunal: mutual accusations of violating inviolability
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The crisis at the Constitutional Tribunal intensified after the announcement of a break in the activities of President Bogdan Święczkowski and Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański.
A spokesman for the Warsaw prosecutor's office emphasized that the notifications came from different people. The crisis in the Constitutional Tribunal reached its peak on Friday, after the announcement on its website of the break in the activities of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, and the Vice-President, Bartłomiej Sochański. The person in charge of the Tribunal's work is Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, elected to the bench by the Sejm of the current term.
In reaction to this decision, demonstrators gathered in front of the Constitutional Tribunal building, including: leading opposition politicians, mainly Law and Justice. If it continues like this, it can be assumed that there will be crimes, murders, which will lead to the polarization of society - said PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński.
On the night from Friday to Saturday, President Karol Nawrocki interrupted his flight to Senegal and arrived at the headquarters of the Constitutional Tribunal. Recordings were published in the media showing his entry into the building and a dispute between the president's representatives and people elected by the current Sejm as judges of the Tribunal. The parties present different versions of events regarding the course of the incident.
Has the president's inviolability been violated?
On Sunday, in an interview with Radio Wnet, the president's spokesman, Rafał Leśkiewicz, said that during the events at the Constitutional Tribunal on the night from Friday to Saturday, the president's inviolability was violated. In his opinion, Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska and the Constitutional Tribunal judges elected this term - Maciej Berek and Krystian Markiewicz - "had no right to touch the president."
He announced that the head of state's office "will take action to submit reports to the prosecutor's office" against these people.
Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said on Sunday on TVP Info: I assess his (the president's - editor's note) entry to the Tribunal in criminal law terms. This was a violation of the inviolability of the Tribunal building. His colleagues behaved with complete impunity in the building and I think that the prosecutor's office must draw consequences for this.
Maciej Berek, judge of the Constitutional Tribunal, reported that the Constitutional Tribunal judges were waiting for the president in front of the entrance to the Tribunal's headquarters. "We were standing in front of the door. At the front of the group of judges was STK A. Korwin-Piotrowska, who wanted to greet the President and invite him to the room prepared for the meeting. The energetically approaching President not only did not stop in front of the Judge standing in front of the door," Berek wrote in Saturday's entry on the X platform.
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Submission of notifications to the prosecutor's office by the president's office.
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