"What happened in TK is simply a farce." Przydacz comments on the judges' actions

On Tuesday, the General Assembly of Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal was convened by Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, during which, among others, a resolution regarding next year's budget of the Tribunal was adopted and judges were selected at random for disciplinary proceedings in the case of the suspended President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, and Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański. Earlier, it was voted that the quorum for Tuesday's deliberations is eight judges of the Constitutional Tribunal.

Marcin Przydacz, head of the Presidential Office of International Policy, was asked about the issue of this meeting during a press conference after the end of Tuesday's National Security Council meeting.

Mr. President, and probably most politically unaffected lawyers, clearly recognize that what happened in the Constitutional Tribunal today is simply a farce, Przydacz said.

He emphasized that it is impossible to talk about the General Assembly of the Constitutional Tribunal or a quorum in a situation when "the people who gathered at the Constitutional Tribunal" were there "due to a political decision (...) of Prime Minister Tusk's government and the police, which de facto protects the entire special operation conducted by Prime Minister Tusk on the Constitutional Tribunal."

“They are not full judges.”

Przydacz believes that the people who gathered on Tuesday in the Tribunal's building "the vast majority are not full judges of the Constitutional Tribunal" because - as he assessed - they did not complete the procedures; in this context, he mentioned, among others: about Maciej Berek, who, according to the KPRP, does not meet the formal conditions to serve as a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal.

The head of BPM assessed that the group that "gathered at the Constitutional Tribunal and decided that two thirds of fifteen is eight, (...) has basic problems with mathematical perception."