Judge Waldemar Żurek, in order to become Minister of Justice, had to relinquish his position as Judge. There was besides 1 problem: the resignation usually takes effect after 3 months, and the swearing in took place on Thursday. The situation was saved by an extraordinary procedure. We needed the signature of the outgoing minister, Adam Bodnar.
"The KRS received information from Adam Bodnar about Waldemar Żurek's resignation of office as of 24 July 2025. Letter dated present at 9 a.m.’, reads KRS president Dagmara Pawełczyk-Woicka on page X.
“Waldek is simply a militant and he will not caress”
The key issue for each justice is judicial immunity. Those who leave by profession lose it. They don't have protection. It is in the case of Waldemar Żurek that there is simply a considerable risk, due to the fact that his relations with the right, especially the PiS and alleged ziobrists, are more than tense.
– Waldek is simply a militant and he will not caress. Which means that we may even be faced with Ziobro being dragged out of the home for avoiding the committee of enquiry and ignoring the court’s orders, says a justice who knows the fresh minister.
— But what happens erstwhile the same Ziobro or his clone returns to the position of Minister of Justice if the right wing wins the election in 2 years? He will do precisely the same, he will drag his face out of this ministry, due to the fact that Waldek will no longer have immunity," he describes.
“The money will be less”
As the judges tell us, the resignation of the judge's office and the failure of remainder will affect the salaries that Waldemar Żurek will receive after reaching retirement age.
— As a judge, he'd get 75 percent of his last wage at rest, no extra. But if he renounces his office, as a pensioner, he will be subject to the Social safety Office and will receive as much money as this Social safety Office will charge him for those tens of years of service as a judge, says 1 of the active judges.
— And this money, let's not fool ourselves, will feel less,” he emphasizes.
Returning to justice after a mission to the ministry? Practically impossible
If Waldemar Żurek, after completing his mission to the Ministry of Justice, wanted to return to the judicial service, he would have been waiting a long way.
First, he would gotta go through the competition before the National Judicial Council, which decides on the promotion of judges, but besides on the admission of persons outside the judiciary. And this can be very difficult, due to the fact that now the KRS is mastered by PiS denominations and acts against the constitution. Therefore, the judges defending the regulation of law respect it as an authority that acts illegally.
However, even if Żurek had received a affirmative advice from the National Court registry to service as a judge, the president has yet to agree on his return to the profession. In 2 years, it will be Karol Nawrocki.
— I can see Nawrocki calling him. In life, another justice who knows Zurka told us a fewer days ago.
"Politics ate even stronger than Waldek"
There is 1 more issue, involving the departure from the judiciary state to politics: “You are losing your independency and your independency as a judge, in order to get active in politics. This is 1 direction of motion,” 1 of the judges tells us.
— Being a justice assumes independency becomes a feature of your character. And politics requires that you constantly gotta compromise. This cannot be reconciled, he stresses.
— And due to the fact that Waldek's a tough guy, he might have a problem with that. And he will be eaten by the politics, due to the fact that they were besides stronger than him,” says our caller.
