The EU court of justice wants to stop the forced retirement of Polish judges. PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Warsaw would defend itself against by the court of justice issued a provisional injunction.
In the election campaign final push before the local elections next Sunday, the Chairman of the Polish ruling party, the PiS, Jaroslaw Kaczynski has criticised the Luxembourg decision against parts of the Polish judicial reform. In an emotional speech during an election rally in the South pole niches Zamosc, he said: “We are a member of the EU, and we will follow the EU law.” He added, however, that Poland will also assert his rights. “It is a provisional decision of the Chairman (of the ECJ), and we will complain against this decision”, – said the politician. The Polish government is going to do, what would they do all of the countries that defended their interests, so Kaczynski.
The on Friday announced the decision of the judges in Luxembourg said that Warsaw had been forced to suspend the lowering of the retirement age for judges in Poland until the adoption of a final judgment. The EU Commission had appealed against the, in July, came into force a law to reduce the retirement age for Polish judges from 70 to 65 years.
The Polish reform of the judiciary to declare
“I can say that we will take after the in-depth analysis of a position,” said the Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told the press in Brussels on Friday. He was convinced in bilateral talks with some leading European politicians of the Polish judicial reform and made it clear to them how necessary it was.
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“I explained that 80 percent of poles are in favour of the Reform, the court held judgments of people are often unfair and not objective enough, and that they violate the sense of Justice of the people. Therefore, we will continue with the Reform,” said Morawiecki in Brussels. He wanted to wait and see “proposals by the institutions of the EU” and then different ways to analyze.
A “provisional” decision
The Foreign office stressed on his Twitter account the “provisional character” of the decision, which “was not a final judgment”. The final decision will come only after the ECJ had received a Polish opinion.
Beata Mazurek, the spokesperson of the ruling party, the PiS, writes on her Twitter account: “Poland is a member of the EU, and it will act in the meaning of the applicable EU Law.” Further, she cites the decision of the EU court of justice, “only a message in the media”. Therefore, one could not talk currently about the Details.
The EU-legal consequences
In the Palace of the President is spoken of a possible change in the law. In view of the decision of the judges in Luxembourg an amendment to the law on the Supreme court could be necessary, said Błażej Spychalski, press Secretary of the head of state, in an Interview with the private radio RMF FM.
“We are in the EU, and Poland wants to keep to the EU rules,” said Zbigniew Ziobro, Minister of justice and attorney-General in one Person. He wanted to speak to the decision as soon as they will made available.
Reactions by the Opposition
Grzegorz Schetyna, the Chairman of the largest opposition party, civic platform, hopes that the decision will put a stop to the “illegal Act of the PiS”. “The PiS has destroyed the Position of Poland in Europe, but they will not destroy the of the Poland shared European values. With those who violate the Constitution, will be settled,” writes Schetyna on his Twitter account.
A “shame” for Poland
The President of the Court małgorzata Gersdorf itself is over 65 and has refused, as some of the other judges of the Supreme court, to leave her Post; she has seen the forced retirement, from the beginning, as illegal. In August, the Supreme court has set in Warsaw by means of a temporary injunction of the law. Gersdorf regrets that this decision was ignored by the government. “I am very concerned that our government has not respected, in spite of numerous Appeals on my part, the decision of the Supreme court. You would have done it, should have for today’s decision not to come,” said the Jura is a Professor and speaks of a “shame” for Poland.
The arrangement of the court has immediate effect. You would ignore Warsaw, you would expect the country with financial consequences. In the spring, the EU court of justice has stopped with a judgment, the deforestation of the primeval forest of Bialowieza in the North-East of Poland. Poland would have to respect the decision of miss, would have amounted to the fine of 100,000 euros per day.