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16/03/2026

20:21

Sejm and Senate, Speaker of the Sejm, Notary. Żurek on Whom Newly Elected Constitutional Tribunal Judges May Swear Allegiance

Mateusz Nowak

- Today, we have two dominant viewpoints here. On the one hand, that it should be before the parliament [...] I believe that the National Assembly has specific competencies defined in the Constitution, and I wouldn't add to those competencies of the National Assembly - said Waldemar Żurek on TVN24, discussing the oath of Constitutional Tribunal judges.

- Before the Sejm and the Senate, but one can also consider before the Speaker of the Sejm, because we know that he is not only colloquially referred to but is a significant office, the second person in the state - he continued.

- Perhaps so [before the Speaker of the Sejm], in the presence of some official person, because this was already discussed when the crisis initially arose in the Tribunal and when Andrzej Duda did not want to accept the oath from three legally elected judges, and it was clearly stated then that perhaps it needs to be done before a notary, communicated to the president, and that would suffice - he went on to say.


Mateusz Nowak