The difficult situation has lasted for more than five years, but only now has politics so openly entered the Supreme Court, which is now being used in a brutal political struggle, Małgorzata Manowska, the first president of the Supreme Court, said in an interview. with “Rz”.
“The neo and pale Supreme Court justices remain in separate backyards.
In an interview with “Rzeczpospolita” Manowska replied that “since 2018 the so-called neo- and pale judges of the Supreme Court remain in separate courts and do not judge together.”
Although I must emphasize that the refusal to rule does not apply to all judges appointed before 2018.
– she added.
Attempts are currently being made to remove certain judges from judging even though they often have better judicial experience, hear more cases than senior Supreme Court judges, and have been selected through competitions involving many, sometimes several dozen, candidates participated, and not as often as they did. was previously the case: one unthreatened candidate for one seat. This is a young, well-trained team of judges. The difficult situation has lasted for more than five years, but only now has politics so openly entered the Supreme Court, which is now being used in a brutal political battle.
– said Manowska.
And the President of the Supreme Court scores the President of the Chamber of Labor and Marshal Hołownia!
The first President of the Supreme Court was also asked about the lack of respect for the decisions of the Extraordinary Control Chamber of the Supreme Court regarding Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik, neither within the Supreme Court nor outside, including by the President of the Sejm, Szymon. Hołownia, who is waiting for the Labor Chamber’s decision in their case.
It should be corrected that the Marshal could not respond anywhere to the appeal of the former heads of the CBA because he was not the one who filed the appeal. Mr. Marshal, in collaboration with the President of the Chamber of Labor, circumvented the document distribution procedure in place at the Supreme Court. Moreover, they tried to jointly determine the composition of the court and forcibly remove the IKNiSP judges from the ruling. These are unprecedented actions. They are not justified by the statement that these actions were public. The openness of these actions proves the incredible arrogance of the authorities. We already had a “judge by telephone”, and now – because of the development of technology – do we have to have a “judge by email”? Neither the Chairman of the Sejm, nor the President of the Court, nor any other body or court shall have the power to assess the effectiveness of the appointment of a judge by the President of the Republic of Poland.
– she emphasized.
Manowska ruled that if we start making the effectiveness of judicial decisions dependent on whether “we like the bank that issued them, this will be a complete collapse of the legal system from which we as a country will not recover for a long time.” She added that such a discrepancy in judicial services “probably did not even exist between judges appointed by the communist authorities and judges appointed with the cooperation of the first National Council for the Judiciary.” The judge had to have completed a law degree in the first place.”
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Source: wPolityce