On Tuesday, the Sejm elected Piotr Łukasz Juliusz Andrzejewski and Jacek Dubois as vice-presidents of the State Tribunal. The parliamentarians also elected 16 members of the Constitutional Court, including: former President of the Sejm Józef Zych.
431 MPs were in favor of the election of the Vice-Presidents and members of the TS, one was against and 4 MPs abstained.
The candidacy of Andrzejewski, member of the Constitutional Tribunal in 2015-2019, and since 2019 Vice-Chairman of the Constitutional Tribunal, long-time senator and opposition activist in the Polish People’s Republic, who as a lawyer defended defendants in martial law trials, was submitted by members of the parliamentary club PiS.
Dubois specializes in criminal law and matters related to the protection of personal rights. In 2011 he was first elected to the State Tribunal. In 2012 he became Vice-President of the Court of Justice and was re-elected to the Court in 2015 and 2019. This was reported by members of the KO club.
Members of the State Tribunal
The members of the State Tribunal were: Marek Czeszkiewicz, Jan Majchrowski, Adrian Salus, Piotr Sak, Marcin Wawrzyniak, Maciej Zaborowski, Sabina Grabowska, Adam Koczyk, Marek Mikołajczyk, Przemysław Rosati, Piotr Zientarski, Marek Małecki, Józef Zych, Marcin Radwan-Röhrenschef , Kamila Ferenc and Maciej Milosz.
Six members of the TS were nominated by PiS MPs, one by MPs of the Confederation and the remaining by MPs of KO, PSL-Trzecia Droga, Polska 2050-Trzecia Droga and Left.
The judge of the State Tribunal is elected by the Sejm by an absolute majority vote in the presence of at least half of the legal number of deputies. According to the constitution, the Constitutional Court consists of a chairman, two vice-chairmen and sixteen members elected by the Sejm from outside the group of deputies and senators for the duration of the Sejm’s term of office.
The first President of the Supreme Court is ex officio President of the Court of Justice.
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Source: wPolityce