The Prosecutor General asked the First President of the Supreme Court to send all election protests

Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar received 304 election protests from the Supreme Court, but asked the first president of the Supreme Court to send all registered protests – said PG spokeswoman Anna Adamiak. She added that the SN replied that the transfer of all protests would destabilize the work of the Supreme Court.

Prok. Anna Adamiak said in a statement that by Monday the Supreme Court sent to the prosecutor general, in order to take a position, a total of 304 protests against the validity of the election of the President of the Republic of Poland. The Prosecutor General has so far presented the Supreme Court of 147 positions regarding the assessment of the legitimacy of complex protests.

“Adam Bodnar, after finding that the Supreme Court sends only some of the election protests brought on the basis of Article 321 of the Electoral Code, asked the first president of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Manowska to cause sending to the General Prosecutor as a participant in the participant in the proceedings in the subject of examining election protests, all protests registered in the Supreme Court,”

She added that “revealed irregularities in the work of the regional electoral commissions, and especially those that could implement the features of crimes, obliged the Prosecutor General to ask the Supreme Court to enable the expression of the position regarding all election protests.”

According to the message, in the answer sent by the Supreme Court, it was indicated that the decisions to deliver protests to the participants of the proceedings remain within the competence of the chairmen of the adjudication panel or rapporteur judges. “It was also argued that the transfer to the Prosecutor General to all accepted electoral protests to recognize it would destabilize the work of the Supreme Court recognizing protests” – reads PG spokeswoman in the communiqué.

Bodnar was replied by the president of the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Krzysztof Wiak. His letter is dated June 20 this year. “I assure you that all orders on the delivery of copies of protests, as well as decisions on the merger of cases, are carried out without undue delay. Moreover, the Prosecutor General will be delivered to notifications about open meetings of the Supreme Court in matters in which they will be appointed” – emphasized Judge Wiak.

He added that election protests are sent by voters for the most part of cases without copies and to deliver them to participants of the procedure, the Supreme Court employees must make copies and draw up followers.

“Adoption at the current stage for delivery of copies of all protests, while the Supreme Court is efficiently struggling with the significant influence of cases, you should pick up than attempt to destabilize the court's work. Due to the unprecedented influx of cases, I ask for patience in anticipation of the copies of protests, as well as the decision, as well as understanding, as well Clapse of the efficient work of the Supreme Court employees ” – wrote the President of the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court.

Almost 50,000 were received by the Supreme Court. election protests. Last Monday – June 16 – was the last day for submitting protests against the SN of the president's election. These, however, flowed into the Supreme Court for the next week, because by June 16, including the protest via Poczta Polska, was tantamount to bringing it to the Supreme Court.

After examining all protests, based on the report on the election presented by the PKW, the Supreme Court, in the composition of the entire Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs, decides on the validity of the election of the President of the Republic of Poland. The resolution in this case is collapsed at an open meeting within 30 days of making the results of the election to the public. This means that the last day that this decision should be made is July 2.

Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar said last week that the judgments issued by the judges of the Extraordinary Control Chamber will not be able to be considered an independent and impartial way. According to him, the judges of the Supreme Court Chamber of Labor Chamber should rule on election protests and the validity of the election.

Earlier, SN spokesman Aleksander Stępkowski, talking about the issue of recognizing electoral matters in the Supreme Court, emphasized that “the only chamber legally attached to the recognition of protests is the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court.”

And the president of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Manowska pointed out that all public statements undermining 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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