NEWS

30/07/2025

21:00

Duda on Żurek's Candidacy for Minister:

It's Only Positive in One Aspect.

- Minister Żurek's candidacy is only positive in one aspect. In the aspect that Minister Żurek has actually heeded my call, which I have formulated several times during judicial appointments, saying to judges: ladies and gentlemen, if you wish to engage in politics, then please stop pretending to be judges, please officially remove your robes and say that you are politicians - stated President Andrzej Duda in an interview for wPolsce24. - I very much ask you to end this hypocrisy; whoever wants to engage in politics, please remove your robe, please lay down your chain of office, please resign from your judicial office, stop being a judge, and then indeed engage in politics. Please have the courage to run in elections, please have the courage to take up public office - he continued. - Minister Żurek has finally done this; for many years he pretended to be a judge, but in reality, he was a politician. Finally, somewhat forced, because the truth is that we firmly demanded that he resign from his judicial office, he did so before his appointment, he resigned from his judicial office, he became a politician, so from this perspective, one can say, finally, it's good, because at least in this aspect, the Constitution is being observed by the representatives of the current authorities - he went on to say.