Political Afternoon Recap: Dera: PAD Signed Letters to the Supreme Court Informing of Retirement; Sejm to Establish VAT Fraud Investigation Committee — PAD SIGNED LETTERS INFORMING SUPREME COURT JUDGES OF RETIREMENT. This concerns those members of the court who did not submit the declarations required by the amendment to the Act on the Supreme Court and have reached the age of 65. "I can inform you that the President signed letters yesterday – based on Art. 39 [of the Act on the Supreme Court] – informing those judges [of the Supreme Court] who did not submit declarations [of their wish to continue adjudicating] that as of yesterday they have entered retirement," stated Minister Andrzej Dera. The letter was also sent to President Małgorzata Gersdorf. — DERA: GERSDORF IS NO LONGER THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT. "Like the other judges, due to not submitting the declaration of intent to continue adjudicating, she has forfeited her status as an active judge. Consequently, she is a judge in retirement, and I probably don't need to explain that a judge in retirement cannot perform the function of the First President," – said Minister Andrzej Dera. — SOME CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL JUDGES POINT TO IRREGULARITIES WITHIN THE TRIBUNAL. Seven members of the Constitutional Tribunal, including Piotr Pszczółkowski – a judge elected in the current term with the votes of PiS – signed a letter addressed to President Julia Przyłębska. The judges believe that the method of appointing adjudicating panels under the new leadership is inconsistent with standards. "The very form of an open public letter is proof of the scale of pathologies within the Constitutional Tribunal, given that judges themselves, including a judge elected with PiS votes, are expressing opposition to such practices," – commented the head of the Nowoczesna club, Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, on the letter. — VOTING BLOCK IN THE SEJM FROM 5:20 PM. MPs WILL, AMONG OTHER THINGS, ESTABLISH AN INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE REGARDING VAT FRAUD.