The president clearly expects the Constitutional Tribunal to comment on his application as soon as possible, Małgorzata Paprocka, minister at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, told Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
Speaking about the President’s referral of the amendment of the Supreme Court law to the Constitutional Court in the context of the preventive scrutiny procedure, Paprocka noted that Andrzej Duda clearly expects the Constitutional Court to comment on his application as soon as possible.
It is true that the Board is not bound by the statutory term, but in the case of, for example, a complaint against the Budget Act, the Constitution stipulates that the case must be dealt with within two months. For example, the legislator itself assumed that it is possible to make a ruling by the Constitutional Court even within two months
– she said.
Noting that the Constitutional Court has “officially six and unofficially eight judges contesting Julia Przyłębska’s mandate as President of the Constitutional Tribunal”, Paprocka pointed out that in her speech and other public statements, the President appealed to the Constitutional Tribunal for internal, organizational disputes had no effect on judicial activity.
The only body that can dispel the doubts that have arisen is the tribunal itself (…). The president emphasizes that this is not the time for disputes, but for the responsible exercise of constitutional duties
said Paprocka.
Impartiality test in practice
When asked how the institution of the “impartiality test” works in its current form, she judged that the current mechanism works well.
The statistics presented by the Ministry of Justice allow a positive assessment of the functioning of the solutions in their current form. Applications for a test are not submitted en masse, which means that in the vast majority of cases citizens have no doubt whether a particular judge will act independently and impartially in their case. But at the same time, looking at the whole of procedural rights, in the President’s opinion, it is very good that the institution of the test has been introduced. If a page is questionable, check it out
noted the minister.
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Source: wPolityce