The National Council of the Judiciary, after three rounds of voting on Tuesday, selected 20 candidates for the Chamber of Extraordinary Supervision and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court.
The chief of the tellers, Joanna Kołodziej-Michałowicz said that there were 18 candidates who received the required majority of votes: attorney and university lecturer Antoni Bojańczyk, the President of the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland Office Leszek Bosek, judge Dariusz Czajkowski, notary Paweł Czubik, university lecturer Tomasz Demendecki, university lecturer Marek Dobrowolski, solicitor Paweł Księżak, solicitor Joanna Lemańska, judge Marcin Łochowski, university lecturer Oktawian Nawrot, university lecturer Janusz Niczyporuk, solicitor Mirosław Sadowski, judge Marek Siwek, university lecturer Aleksander Stępkowski, university lecturer Maria Szczepaniec, university lecturer Krzysztof Wiak, judge Jacek Widło and solicitor Grzegorz Żmij.
A second round of voting was necessary as there were 20 seats to fill in the Chamber of Extraordinary Supervision. The only one to receive enough support in the second round was university lecturer Adam Redzik.
As there was still one seat left to fill, the KRS President, Leszek Mazur ordered a third round of voting, this time however, over just one candicate, judge Ewa Stefańska. She didn't receive the absolute majority of 11 votes in the previous rounds. In the last vote, however, she managed to get 14 votes and her name was put on the list of 20 judges the KRS recommends for appointing.
Earlier on, during Tuesday's session, the KRS adopted a resolution to send a request to President Andrzej Duda to appoint seven judges of the Supreme Court's Civic Chamber, who would fill the seven vacant seats. The Council received 30 applications for the Civic Chamber.
Last week, 4 teams of KRS judges interviewed nearly 200 candidates in order to fill 44 seats in the Supreme Court.
On Thursday, the KRS convened to fill 16 seats in the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court. The Council made a decision to send a request to President Andrzej Duda to appoint 12 judges. Four seats remain unfilled, as none of the remaining candidates received the minimum of required votes.
On Friday, after examining 5 applications, the KRS recommended a judge from Poznań District Court, Wojciech Sych for the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court.
In the end of June, an announcement regarding 44 free seats in the Supreme Court was published by the President in "Monitor Polski" (Official Gazette of the Republic of Poland). On Tuesday, the second announcement by the President was published in Monitor Polski, regarding another 11 vacant seats in the Supreme Court.
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