NEWS

11/02/2026

21:04

Żurek on the National Council of the Judiciary:

If Judges Make the Choice, and Politicians Say ‘We Accept It,’ Then We Will Meet the Requirements of European Courts.

Michał Lubowicki

- If the President signs [the new act on the KRS], then this procedure [initiated by the Marshal of the Sejm] falls, because a new act comes into force. If he doesn’t sign it, then today we… we appeal to the judges, and I saw that the pro-democratic judicial associations, which defended the rule of law and did not destroy it, have already done so, for us to make grassroots elections for the judicial part of the KRS by judges - said Waldemar Żurek in the TVN24 program “Kropka nad i” (A Dot Over the i).

- If the judges make this choice through a transparent procedure, and democratic politicians say: “We accept it, you have chosen fifteen, so we effectively approve these fifteen through election in the Sejm” – if it happens this way, then we will meet, in my opinion, the requirements of the European courts, because indeed judges will indicate these judges - he stated.


Michał Lubowicki