Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal without pay. Pawłowicz: Shocking attack on Polish institutions

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Last year's boss Committee of the Permanent Council of Ministers Maciej Berek – speaking of the draft budget – he argued that financing of entities whose legality has been undermined by the case law of global courts is not justified.

Krystyna Pavlowicz: We don't get paid


– We don't get paid," said Pavlowicz. Inquired since the judges were not paid their salary, she replied that the first time they did not receive it in February.

The portal atPoliticy.pl, which besides referred questions to the Court in this case, was answered that “relegation State Treasury to the Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal is at present the amount of one-month remuneration (the remuneration of the Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal for the period of February)’. ‘Part of the Constitutional Court's judges have already asked the president of the Constitutional Court to pay outstanding remuneration by way of a pre-trial call for payment” said the portal.

Pavlovich said Chairman of the Constitutional Tribunal take action on this matter. “However, this is specified a shocking attack on Poland, on Polish constitutional institutions and bodies, on the independent Court and independent judges by the Polish authorities that there are no words,” said Pawłowicz.

She stressed that the Constitution guarantees that judges Constitutional Court ‘ensures working conditions and remuneration’. In her opinion, "this is an open violation of the constitution and state violence". “It is criminal responsibility,” she said.

– This power identifies Constitutional Court with opposition, even though we were legally elected by the Sejm," she said.

Pat in the Constitutional Court


17 January president Andrzej Duda signed the budget bill, but any of its provisions were directed to the TK in follow-up control. Minister at KPRP Małgorzata Paprocka explained at the time that, according to the President, specified major changes in the budgets of the CoR and the CCC should be assessed by the CCC.

Constitutional Court in its current form, it is criticised by the current authorities and any lawyers who, citing rulings, inter alia, of the ECHR and the EU Court of Justice, measure that it is simply a politicised institution. The Sejm so adopted a resolution on 6 March on the removal of the effects of the 2015-2023 constitutional crisis, in which it stated that "the operation of the public authority's decisions Constitutional Court issued in violation of the law, may be considered a breach of the rule of legality by those authorities.’ The Sejm besides found, among others, that the current ruling in the Constitutional Tribunal Jarosław Wyrembak and Justin Piskorski are not judges of the Constitutional Court.

Since the Sejm adopted this resolution judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal shall not be published in the authoritative Journal.

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