Act on the Supreme Court and the courts. Justice Commission – Politics

* The opposition strongly protested against such conduct. – You will be responsible for what you do. I can promise you that the prosecutor in Poland will not hesitate to accuse you. The Lord transforms parliament into a circus, Piotr Borrow Budka warns Piotrowicz

* There were also a lot of vulgar attacks and attacks during the session. – The rudeness of Lewacki makes a pigsty here! – Krystyna Pawłowicz shouted to the opposition. President Piotrowicz did not react.

The Sejm voted to amend the laws

The Sejm adopted an amendment to the provisions of about the Supreme Court and the Courts on the procedures of election of the first president of the Supreme Court and nominating judges at the Supreme Court. 230 members voted in favor of the bill, 24 voted against and 4 abstained. Most opposition MPs did not take part in the vote

– PiS perpetrated the last act of assassination on the rule of law – wrote PO Robert Tyszkiewicz

– Gross is the thrust of the Sejm of the subsequent trials – says the journalist Gazeta.pl Jacek Gądek. 19659006]

What is happening now in the Sejm

Just after 9, the second reading of the draft amendment to the law of the Supreme Court the Council National Judiciary, the courts and the PiS Prosecutor's Office have started. On the night of Thursday to Friday, the Sejm Committee for Justice and Human Rights voted in favor of the project and recommended almost 40 amendments

In the PiS debate on Friday, he supported the project amendment to the Supreme Court.

The Sejm rejects motions from opposition MPs regarding the adjournment of the meeting until September 11 and announces an interruption of proceedings. After rejecting the findings, the Sejm went to the polling station.

After second reading, the project was placed at the bottom of the list in the voting block scheduled for Friday. Earlier, he will probably be voted to refer the bill to the committee. If such a motion is not taken into account, MPs will vote first on minority motions and amendments at second reading.

Hangar: "You Are a Market"

Borys Budka says that the bill is "another legal sale, a great cowardice, a law written at the Department of Justice".

He asked for rejection at the second reading of the PiS project on amendments to the law on the Supreme Court and the courts.

Kukiz & # 39; 15: "push the important law with the knee – not serious"

– Does the rational legislator impose such an important constitutional act and pushes the knee in two days, in principle a day, night and morning? This is simply not done – said Grabowski during the Sejm debate. According to him, this procedure was "a frivolous treatment of parliamentarians and Poles".

According to him, the actions of the PiS and the OP lead to a reduction of the electoral participation and discourage the Poles from politics

Gasiuk-Pichowicz

PSL-UED: "nobody has made such a fraud in the judicial system as the PiS "

– As for the reform of any sphere of life in our country, no political team has gone so far as to To a fraud like PiS – he stressed Friday in Seym Krzysztof Paszyk (PSL-UED) He adds that his club would be against the project on the Polish community

Scheuring-Wielgus: "Jaroslaw Kaczynski is a coward" [19659016] When Scheuring-Wielgus called the head of the parliamentary justice commission Stanisław Piotrowicz and the president of the law and justice Jaroslaw Kaczyński, "cowards", the vice-president of the Sejm, Ryszard Terlecki, chaired the assistant microphone . The case has already criticized opposition MPs, saying that it is a violation of the distribution of cases between judges and threatens the political selection of judges.

– One of our most important reforms was the possibility of drawing lots. Misunderstanding of our change, proposed in this amendment, you try to assert that we leave the random assignment of business. Therefore, in order to avoid any doubt, I propose an amendment to strike that point, which was supposed to improve the procedure. Random distribution of business will be – said Ast, addressing the opposition

The situation around the amendment to the laws on the Supreme Court, the National Register of Courts and the Prosecutor's Office in a conversation with "Newsweek", prof. Adam Strzembosz. It is the first president of the Supreme Court in Free Poland (in the years 1990-1998).

Marta Lempart of the Women's Strike: "People, go to Sejm, where gangsters PiS under the protection of thousands of policemen murder us the judiciary "

Rafał Trzaskowski on the situation around the Sejm: " What PiS did it's scary Citizens, you exchanged the Sejm in the fortress, separating you from normal people "

Joachim Brudziński, PIS: " Regardless of attacks or leftist hooliganism or the Indignation on the right side of TT what belongs to him. "

Sławomir Nitras from PO: In the shadow of the SN acting at night, Marshal Kuchciński amended the regulations of the Sejm. If the second fine is imposed on an assistant, its duration goes from 3 months of receipt 1/2 salary to 9 months to receive the same. In addition, a ban from sitting in the presidium. parliamentary committees. Valid from today.

Piotrowicz did not do it. The Sejm will hold judicial decisions in the morning

Despite the deadly pace of work, MP Stanisław Piotrowicz failed to push all the amendments so that the Sejm could take care of it. Them at night. In order to finish the job on July 19, the chairman of the Justice Committee forced Marshal Kuchciński. Due to the delay, the second reading of the project was postponed to Friday 9am (initially, it was to start at 23:00, then 30 minutes after midnight).

Nine o'clock of the meeting. MPs let go of nerves

– Lewacki's rudeness is done by a pigsty! – Krystyna Pawłowicz shouted at the opposition deputies. – "Either you calm down or you get out of the flocks … you have to fly within 5 minutes," said Jerzy Meysztowicz of Nowoczesna, what the deliberations of the justice commission have been like from the beginning. –

Blame for these unpleasant speeches and this nervous atmosphere, President Piotrowicz throws opposition deputies into the field – you provoked for several hours, so calm yourself down – he says in response to indignation, Pawłowicz

Punishment for Rebel Judges

PiS introduces the penalty of "depriving the right to rest", for judges, for whom disciplinary proceedings will be In progress. The judge's remuneration must be halved. 19659006] – That way, better before you contaminate a man, put him in jail – not you're serving a punishment or you're telling him to pay a fine, and then you'll pay him back. This formula violates the basic constitutional principle: as long as you are innocent, you will not be punished – said Vice Marshal Barbara Dolniak.

Up to 21.45 deputies voted 30 amendments. PiS alone reported 34. According to the Sejm II calendar, the reading of the amendment to the law is scheduled for 23.15

One of the amendments concerned the random assignment of cases to judges. According to the new rules, the president of the court may (after the draw) change the jury before the trial.
According to SPC committee member Święcicki, this amendment eliminates "the only good thing in judicial reform". In front of the Sejm, protest

The protest against the opponents to the changes of the judicial power imposed by the PiS continues before the Sejm. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, several hundred people participate. Slogan slogans assembled: "Free Courses!" And "Constitution!" Opposition deputies speak to them, but also lawyers – as prof. Marcin Matczak, who has long criticized the assassination of independence

Stanisław Piotrowicz wants to push the project at any price

The head of the committee of parliamentary justice, the deputy Stanisław Piotrowicz, is determined to adopt all the amendments until 23:15, when he will meet the Sejm. However, everything indicates that if this date turns out to be unrealistic, the committee will work to that end. – Ms. Gasiuk-Pihowicz is making efforts so that we can not reconsider the entire bill. The only question is whether we finish at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, "says Piotrowicz

In order to speed up the meeting, another request is shortened by 30 seconds

The Commission resumed debate

Stanisław Piotrowicz resumes after the break committee meeting. Opposition deputies who have received amendments ask the Legislative Office to say whether, after the amendments, the law in practice will not be different from the one previously discussed in plenary, and therefore whether the principle of the three readings will be maintained. The Deputy Minister of Justice, Łukasz Piebiak, does not agree with such a charge and in case of doubt, he advises submitting an application to the Constitutional Court.

Black Thursday of Polish democracy. Opposition calls in front of the Sejm

There are several hundred uniforms behind the barriers that separate the Wiejska Street from the Sejm. The largest group is at the passport office, where protesters gather on the other side of the gates. Before the hours 19 other police reinforcements arrived in front of the Sejm.

MP Tadeusz Cymański, on the way to the Sejm, was escorted. He was accompanied by two policemen

– Most of the democratically elected in 2015 do not understand the principle that the parliamentary majority can govern only under the constitution. No matter how much we are or are we in Warsaw or elsewhere, because the constitution is not statistical. It's a contract between us and the power. This contract was broken – said Prof. UW Marcin Matczak.

Ast: I hope that we will meet the First President of the Supreme Court in September

The draft amendment to the Supreme Court and the National Council of Magistracy provides that the Assembly General SN judges will elect and present to the President the candidates to the First President of the Supreme Court 2/3 positions of SN judges, not – as is the case now – only when almost all positions are filled

– By the time 2/3 of the Supreme Court judges are filled, the General Assembly can immediately adopt a resolution indicating 5 candidates whose president will appoint the first president of the Supreme Court. When, in turn, he can come to this event, it is difficult to determine. I think for a few weeks, until September I hope that this resolution will be passed and we will meet the first president of the Supreme Court – said Marek Ast in an interview with Marcin Fijołek at wPolsce.pl.

Piotrowicz shortens the time of speeches of deputies to … 30 seconds

The chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Justice and Human Rights, deputy Stanisław Piotrowicz, shortened the time of speeches of deputies at … 30 seconds. As he stated, the opposition "abuses voting rights". The president's request was voted by the PiS deputies.

– Maybe I'm going to change this application because you'll behave differently – Piotrowicz told the other members of the commission. Then he limited the time to the whole club for 3 minutes.

During the discussion, Piotrowicz threatened MP Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz that if she intervenes in the proceedings, she would ask the Sejm's presidium to punish her for the penalty.

Before 18 Law and Justice made changes to its own amendment to the Act. The amendments have not been presented to the opposition or the media. There was no way to get acquainted with them.

The Sejm Justice Committee is in session

. Parliamentary Committee on Justice and Human Rights meeting has started, which will prepare a report on the subject

At the very beginning of the meeting, its chairman, MP Stanisław Piotrowicz, proposed that the Committee reduced the speaking time of Members. PiS, who has the majority in the commission, supported this application. They will receive a minute to ask questions and formal requests, two for other statements. The opposition protests, saying that it is illegal.

Piotrowicz is determined to complete the work of the commission as soon as possible (he himself stated that at 23:00 the draft was to go to second reading). When Kamila Gasiuk-Pichowicz of Nowoczesna wants to submit a formal petition, Piotrowicz interrupts and prevents it. – I will stop when you do not follow the agenda – he says.

First Reading

Thursday before noon, the Sejm held the first reading of the PiS project on, inter alia, changes in the procedure for selecting the first president of the Supreme Court and the procedure for filling vacancies judges at the Supreme Court. The project also applies to changes in the judicial system and provisions on the National Council of the Judiciary and the Prosecutor's Office

Requests for rejection of the project during the parliamentary debate were submitted by the clubs of Japan. opposition: PO, Nowoczesna and PSL-UED

What changes are included in the project?

The project proposes that the SN General Assembly of Judges selects and presents to the President candidates for the first president immediately after filling 2/3 the number of SN judges, and not – as today – only when almost all positions are occupied

The changes must allow the Supreme Court to be filled by judges at the election of the National Council of Magistracy, which the PiS had previously planted with his people. If the project comes into effect, the national court register will be able to appoint its first president instead of the unprofessional PiS by the prof. Małgorzata Gersdorf

Where does the amendment proceed so quickly? The reform is dealt with by the Court of Justice. It is before his decision that he wants to keep PiS so that reform is not blocked.