An important day for TK. There will be a broadcast of the key sessions

The General Assembly of Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal is to begin today at 15:30. Its main goal is to adopt the Constitutional Tribunal's budget plan for 2027. Without a resolution on this matter, next year's budget will not include funds for the maintenance of the Tribunal.

It is still unclear how many judges will appear at today's hearing. Even how the quorum will be counted is a subject of speculation.

Bogdan Święczkowski, Bartłomiej Sochański and Jarosław Wyrębak will certainly be excluded from participating in the meeting. In the case of the first two, this will be a consequence of Friday's decision announced by Anna Korwin-Piotrowska. In turn, Wyrębak will not be allowed to participate as he was elected to a previously occupied position, the so-called judge-understudy.

In this situation, the meeting may consist of 12 participants. The majority of 2/3 of those entitled to adopt resolutions would mean 8 judges in this situation.

Who will evaluate Korwin-Piotrowska's decision?

During today's meeting, the panels of the 1st and 2nd instance of the Disciplinary Court will also be drawn. They will assess the validity of Friday's temporary removal from duties of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, and Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański.

As RMF FM reporter Tomasz Skory found out, the composition of the disciplinary court will be drawn from a group of 12 people (excluding judges Święczkowski, Sochański and Wyrębak, called the understudy judge). This will take place regardless of the presence or absence of all persons entitled to participate in the meeting.

Theoretically, it is possible that the role of the disciplinary spokesman acting as a prosecutor will fall to one of Bogdan Święczkowski's supporters. The three-person panel of the Disciplinary Court may also consist of judges elected to the Tribunal by PiS votes.

The Disciplinary Court must make a decision within one month of the order issued by Anna Korwin-Piotrowska. If he finds them unfounded, Święczkowski and Sochański will be able to return to work.

Harsh words from the presidential spokesman. "Usurper" and "hysterical judge"

Rafał Leśkiewicz, spokesman for President Karol Nawrocki, commented on the topic of the meeting planned for the afternoon in the Morning conversation on RMF FM.

Let's stop saying that today there will be a meeting of the General Assembly of the Constitutional Tribunal, that Anna Korwin-Piotrowska is a judge of the Tribunal, and that she is acting as the president of the Tribunal. No, not fully, he argued. It appeared there on Friday, introduced from behind by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, with the use of huge police forces, with the use of services - explained the RMF FM guest. He also called Korwin-Piotrowska herself "a usurper set up by Tusk" and "a hysterical judge of the District Court in Opole."

Questions about the authorization issued by Święczkowski

On Monday, the Constitutional Tribunal's spokeswoman Weronika Ścibor published a letter dated April in which Bogdan Święczkowski authorized judge Stanisław Piotrowicz to replace him.