Concerns about the validity of the election. The Sejm has passed a ‘accidental law’

news.5v.pl 5 months ago

The Sejm passed the alleged Emergency Act, according to which the validity of the election of the president in 2025 is to be ruled by 15 judges with the oldest seniority in the ultimate Court. The bill will now go to the Senate.

220 Members voted in favour of the bill204 opposed, 20 abstentions. Before Parliament did not include Application for a PiS to reject the bill in its entirety.

The main presumption of the alleged Incident law ‘with peculiar arrangements for designation by Supreme Court matters related to election of the president of Poland and supplementary elections to the Polish Senate, ordered in 2025’ is that the validity of the election of the president in 2025 is to be ruled by 15 judges as the oldest serving justice of the ultimate Court.

The alleged Emergency Act adopted by the Sejm. The task will go to the Senate

The Sejm besides accepted, among another things, an amendment according to which, where 2 or more judges have the same period of service as a justice of the ultimate Court, precedence was given to sitting in the composition of the General Court. the validity of the President's election has a longer-term judge.

Under the SN Act, the question of validity election of the President determines Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs. However, its position is disputed, among others, by the current authorities, which trust on case law in this case TEU and ETPC, so the alleged Incidental Act The problem is solved so that the validity of the President's election is clear.