The draft on the Constitutional Tribunal will not be discussed in the current session of the Sejm, PiS spokesman Rafał Bochenek said on Tuesday. He added that the pace of work on the bill will depend on the decision of the Presidium of the Sejm, and no such decision has yet been made.
On May 4, PiS MPs submitted to the Sejm a draft amendment to the law on the organization and procedure of proceedings before the Constitutional Court, which provides for the reduction of the minimum number of judges of the General Assembly and the full composition of the Constitutional Court. Tribunal for 9 judges. The amended provisions apply to proceedings initiated and not completed before the date of entry into force of the amendment. For months, a dispute has been raging in the Constitutional Tribunal over the term of office of Julia Przyłębska as President of the Constitutional Tribunal, which has prevented the Tribunal from convening in full recently.
PiS spokesman, who asked at a press conference whether the Sejm would consider the bill at Tuesday’s meeting, replied that it would not be processed at the current meeting and the pace at which it would be processed depended on the decision of the Presidium of the Sejm and the President of the Sejm.
There is no such decision yet
– added.
This bill will most likely not be introduced at this meeting
said Bochenek.
PiS project on TK
The draft amendment to the Law on the Organization and Procedure of the Constitutional Court, submitted by PiS, aims – as stated in the explanatory memorandum – to streamline the functioning of the Tribunal by reducing the minimum size of the General Assembly from 2/3 of the number of judges of the Tribunal (i.e. 10 judges) to 9 and the full composition of the Tribunal from 11 to 9 judges. The amended provisions apply to proceedings initiated and not completed before the date of entry into force of the amendment.
On Saturday, the chairman of the Sejm’s Justice and Human Rights Committee, Marek Ast (PiS), told PAP that the committee would begin work on the draft amendment during the Sejm session on May 24-26.
The ongoing dispute at the Constitutional Court is related to the fact that according to some lawyers, including former and current judges of the Constitutional Court, Przyłębska’s term as President of the Constitutional Court expired after six years, i.e. on December 20, 2022, and at the same time she no possibility to reapply for this position. According to Przyłębska herself, as well as Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and some experts, her term of office will expire in December 2024 – with the end of Przyłębska’s term as judge of the Constitutional Tribunal.
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