Eight judges and candidates challenge president's role in Constitutional Tribunal appointments

Eight individuals—four current judges and four Sejm-appointed candidates—issued an eight-point declaration contesting President Karol Nawrocki's alleged constitutional powers over the Constitutional Tribunal. They reiterate that Article 194 of the Constitution entrusts the Sejm alone with selecting the fifteen judges, and that the president neither chooses nor formally receives their oath. While three judges swore before the president and five did so in the Sejm, the signatories stress that the oath ceremony at the Presidential Palace is a customary, not legal, requirement.

They denounce the president's decision to invite only three of the eight judges to the palace as arbitrary, noting that all statutory elements of the oath were satisfied and documented in a notarial act. The statement calls for the immediate activation of the newly sworn judges, whose work has been stalled by Judge Bogdan Święczkowski for more than seven months, and pledges to restore the tribunal's constitutional functions.