Aleksander Stępkowski, Elżbieta Karska and Agnieszka Szklanna - candidates for European Court of Human Rights judges - have been rejected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The council has, therefore, asked Poland to nominate new candidates.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has ultimately rejected the whole list of Polish candidates for the European Court of Human Rights judges in Strasbourg - TVN24 reporter Michał Tracz has learned. Earlier, on April 9, the three candidates were rejected by the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights.
The committee's decision has been rubber-stamped by the Parliamentary Assembly which, from the procedural point of view, was a formality finally ending the case. The assembly said during the latest session that the main behind the rejection of Polish candidates was lack of transparency of their nomination process. The Council of Europe has asked Poland to nominate new candidates, as the procedure of appointing Polish judge to the ECHR needs to be started from the scratch.
Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted a list of Polish candidates for ECHR judges on March 8.
Polish government backed the following persons: DSc Elżbieta Karska, a professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, in private life the wife of PiS MEP Karol Karski, Supreme Court spokesman and founder of the ultraconservative organisation Ordo Iuris DSc Aleksander Stępkowski, and Council of Europe expert PhD Agnieszka Szklanna.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP
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