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Polish President Andrzej Duda signed on Thursday the law allowing the government to elect the next head of the Supreme Court despite street protests and accusations in the country and the EU whose measure violates the law. Independence of the judiciary, reports Reuters.
The European Union, human rights groups and the opposition opposed, but the Justice and Law Party says that a revision is necessary to make justice more effective and eradicate the residual influence of the Polish communist past
22 judges of the Supreme Court were forced to retire early, but the President of the Supreme Court, Judge Malgorzata Gersdorf, refused to leave, claiming that its constitutional mandate expired only in 2020.
Non-governmental organizations planned to demonstrate in front of the president's office in Warsaw on Thursday night, but protests are also expected in other Polish cities
Since the Nationalist Law and Justice Party took office in 2015, dozens of judges have been dismissed from the Constitutional Court, The National Council of the Judiciary, which Statute on Judgments
