The Supreme Court received 61 protests against the president's election. Most apply to voting cards

Until now, 61 protests have been received against the president's election – Monika Drwal from the press team of the Supreme Court informed PAP on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court considered six such protests and left them without further running.

Time for submitting to the Supreme Court a protest against the president's election, after the state election commission, the result of the election and announcement of the election and announcement of the election of Karol Nawrocki. PKW gave the result on June 2; specific entities, including Voters may submit election protests in writing until June 16.

Until now, 61 such protests have been received by the Supreme Court, and the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court began considering the first of them on Tuesday. As Monika Drwal from the SN press team said PAP, six protests were considered on Tuesday as left without further running.

The Supreme Court, referring to electoral protests, referred in Tuesday's communiqué to information about irregularities in the actions of the precinct electoral commissions, consisting in deficiencies in counting votes, as well as incorrect completion of commission reports. District election committees, among others In Kraków and Mińsk Mazowiecki, the opposite was attributed to the voices cast in re -vote to Karol Nawrocki and Rafał Trzaskowski.

The Supreme Court pointed out in a statement that such situations could also be the basis for allegations of electoral protests; If the voter would like to challenge them, he must formulate in the protest allegations regarding the admission of a crime or violation of the provisions of the Electoral Code, justify them, and also present or indicate evidence in their support.

“One of the possible evidence that may confirm the legitimacy of the allegations regarding the determination of the results of voting or election results are the examination of electoral cards. As a rule, taking such evidence is commissioned by the Supreme Court to the competent court as part of the appeal as part of the appeal for granting court assistance. Then the District Court, and not the Supreme Court, takes evidence at the meeting, the Court of which the Supreme Court informs.

In addition, the protest may apply to the circumstances of both the first round of presidential elections, which took place on May 18, and the 2nd round of June 1. It can only be submitted in writing. Other forms such as fax, e-mail or ePUAP are unacceptable. It can be submitted directly to the Supreme Court or in a Polish post office.

If the voter is abroad or on a Polish sea ship, the protest may entrust the corresponding consul or captain of the ship. However, he must add a notification to the appointment of his representative residing in a country or a proxy for service of inhabited in the country.

If the protest is to be recognized by the Supreme Court, it cannot contain formal deficiencies – it must meet the requirements set out in the electoral code and the general terms of the pleading. Detailed requirements relating to electoral protests are included on the SN website.

After recognizing all election protests, based on the report on the election presented by the PKW, the Supreme Court decides on the validity of the election of the President of the Republic of Poland – it must do so within 30 days of making the results of the choice to the public. This means that the last day the decision must be made will be on July 2 this year.

Pursuant to the provisions introduced in 2018 during the PiS rule, competent for considering election protests and finding the validity of the election, the Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber of Supreme Court is created at that time. It is made up of persons appointed after 2017 to the office of a judge at the request of the National Council of the Judiciary shaped in the manner specified in the provisions of the CRS Act of 2017. For this reason, the status of this chamber is questioned by the current government, which recalls here, among others Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. Before 2018, the election issues were considered by the then Insurance and Public Affairs Chamber.

Last week, the first president of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Manowska stated that all public statements that undermine the constitutional competences of the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court to decide on the validity of the election of the President of the Republic of Poland result from ignorance of the law or are motivated by the intention of political destabilization. (PAP)

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