Remove the demonstrators in front of the Constitutional Tribunal. Letter from Judge Korwin-Piotrowska to the police

According to the information obtained by Krzysztof Zasada, the Chief Commander of the Police left Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska's letter unrecognized. In the opinion of the police chiefs, there are no grounds to remove demonstrators from the seat of the Constitutional Tribunal.

The gathering has been going on for several weeks. It was reported to the capital's city hall and is done legally. The decision to dissolve this meeting could only be made by the Mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, if there were grounds for doing so. However, there is no such decision, so there is no basis for the police action.

The General Assembly of Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal will be broadcast

The General Assembly of Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal is to begin today at 15:30. The goal is to adopt the Constitutional Tribunal's budget plan for next year. As RMF FM journalist Tomasz Skory found out, the meeting will be broadcast in its entirety. The reason is the desire to act with an open curtain.

Korwin-Piotrowska informed that the main purpose of the meeting she convened was to be the issue of next year's plan of the Tribunal's income and expenses. These were not included in the draft budget law for next year. The reason, as justified by the Ministry of Finance and Economy, was the failure to meet the requirements for the adoption of the plan of the Constitutional Tribunal's income and expenses by the General Assembly of Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal. The Constitutional Tribunal Assembly tried to convene twice on this matter, but was unsuccessful. The reason was, among others, no quorum.

Confusion over the quorum

According to the constitution, the Constitutional Tribunal consists of 15 judges. According to the Act on the organization and procedure of proceedings before the Constitutional Tribunal, "the General Assembly adopts resolutions by an absolute majority of votes, in the presence of at least 2/3 of the total number of judges of the Tribunal" - with a total number of 15 judges of the Constitutional Tribunal, this is 10 people.

According to, among others, President Bogdan Święczkowski and the presidential side, there are currently 10 judges in the Constitutional Tribunal, including three elected by the Sejm of the current term. President Karol Nawrocki did not take the oath from the other five people elected by the Sejm in this term, and therefore Święczkowski did not allow them to adjudicate.

In turn, according to, among others, on the government side, after the Sejm elected eight people as judges of the Constitutional Tribunal this term, the composition of the Tribunal was increased to 15 people, with two judges: Święczkowski and Bartłomiej Sochański suspended from their duties. Moreover, it is argued that Jarosław Wyrembak does not have the status of a Constitutional Tribunal judge, because he took up the function in place of a person "faultily" elected to the Constitutional Tribunal - journalistically referred to as a "double judge".

In such a situation, there are different voices based on the number of judges to count the quorum of the General Assembly. There are also questions about the procedure and who was summoned to Tuesday's meeting.