- It's more complicated because in this case, I have the impression that the ministry cannot fully withdraw the bill from review, as it was not the ministry that requested an opinion on this specific bill. I will remind you of a fact: there was a moment when the Codification Commission for the Judiciary and Prosecution System prepared two draft bills concerning the status of judges, and then the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the representative body for the Council of Europe, which is also responsible for overseeing the execution of Strasbourg judgments, requested an opinion. They asked the Polish government: give us an opportunity to provide an opinion on such a bill – stated Adam Bodnar on Polsat News's "Graffiti".

- And then the ministry is in a passive position, meaning as the entity that prepared the bill, these bills were indeed sent. Everything sort of halted at the stage of the presidential elections, and now I interpret it more in a way that the ministry or the government doesn't want to cooperate with the Venice Commission at all, but the commission's request came not from the government, but from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – he continued.