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The rock star Mick Jagger criticizes the Polish judicial reform at a concert of the Rolling Stones in Warsaw.
He was too old to be a judge. But he was not too old to sing, said Jagger in Polish, according to the Gazeta.pl news portal. The national Conservative PiS government lowered the maximum age of Supreme Court judges from 70 to 65 years, forcing many to retire early. As more than a third of the current judges are concerned by the law, it is considered an attempt by the Polish government to shape the judiciary according to its own ideas and to undermine the principles of the rule of law such as the independence of the judiciary.
The Rolling Stones in Warsaw in 1967 – at the time of communism in the country. He hopes that since then, Poland has learned something. Polish ex-president Lech Walesa has written to the legendary rock band to ask for his support in defense of freedom and the rule of law in Poland
This post has been posted on 09.07.2018 in the Deutschlandfunk program.
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