Had it not been for the election campaign, KPO funds might have been unblocked. Together let’s call on the Constitutional Tribunal to deal with this case as soon as possible and maybe this will actually start the process, if not in the coming weeks, then in the coming months – said Marcin Przydacz, head of the International Policy Office at the President’s Chancellery, on TVN24.
“The EC has a political impact”
The Prime Minister was asked about KPO’s blocked funds for Poland by Brussels. During the conversation, he stated that in his opinion “today’s pre-election and campaign situation is also a kind of incentive for the European Commission to exert political influence”.
Without the election campaign, these funds might have been unblocked
he said.
(EC) has, in my view, a political influence on the situation in Poland
– added.
To the moderator’s comment that if President Andrzej Duda had not referred the law on the Supreme Court to the Constitutional Court, regardless of the election campaign in Poland, the European Commission would have paid the money, Przydacz replied:
I’m not so sure what the Commission would do.
“Let’s appeal together to the Constitutional Tribunal
At the same time, he noted that the European Commission has assured that when the law comes into force, it will reach a milestone in the field of justice.
But knowing the European Commission, I wouldn’t be surprised if suddenly they remembered that somewhere on page 64 there’s a little element in the footnote, etc. We can imagine such a scenario. God grant that this is not the case, so let us jointly appeal to the Constitutional Tribunal to deal with this matter as soon as possible and perhaps this will actually get the process under way. If not in the coming weeks, then in the coming months
said the minister, turning to the leader.
Asked what if the Constitutional Tribunal shared the president’s doubts about the law, Przydacz pointed out that he could not say what the Tribunal would do because it was composed of independent judges.
If (TK) agrees with the president’s arguments, talks with the European Commission will of course start again. The President has his objections to this bill, let’s wait for the Court’s ruling
said Przydacz.
Amendment of the law on the Supreme Court
In February this year, President Andrzej Duda referred to the Constitutional Tribunal – as a pre-emptive check – an amendment to the Supreme Court law. Law and Justice politicians – the authors of the law – argued that its adoption will be crucial for Poland to receive funds from the EU Reconstruction Fund under the KPO – National Recovery Plan after the COVID-19 pandemic. The amendment stipulates, among other things, that disciplinary and immunity cases of judges should be decided by the Supreme Administrative Court, and not – as is currently the case – by the Supreme Court’s Professional Liability Chamber.
In the motion addressed to the Constitutional Court, the President asked the Tribunal to examine the constitutionality of, among other things, a number of entries on the test of judicial independence and the transfer of disciplinary and immunity cases from judges to the Supreme Administrative Court. The presidential motion also questioned, among other things, provisions that allow requests for the resumption of legally concluded disciplinary and immunity cases to be allowed, as well as the vacatio legis provided for by this amendment, set at 21 days.
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