Tusk: flawed verdicts by Supreme and Constitutional courts to be marked with special annotation

During a press conference on Wednesday, Tusk addressed the decision by the unrecognized chamber of the Supreme Court concerning the financial report of the PiS electoral committee from the 2023 elections.

"We have adopted a government resolution directly addressing the issue of Supreme Court verdicts in Poland and the Constitutional Tribunal ... A significant amount of time was spent carefully analyzing how to handle Supreme Court verdicts, especially those made by judges who, according to Polish law and the constitution, should not be serving there," Tusk said.

The prime minister explained that "the publications of Supreme Court verdicts will include annotations - whenever these are flawed from the constitutional or legal perspective."

"This will ensure that anyone reading these publications knows, in accordance with the Sejm resolution on the Constitutional Tribunal or the government resolution regarding the Supreme Court, that the verdicts or institutions in question are considered flawed from the standpoint of the Polish state," he added.

On Monday, the National Electoral Commission (PKW) postponed its deliberations on the financial report of PiS’s electoral committee. The postponement was due to the need for "systematic regulation by the constitutional authorities of the Republic of Poland of the legal status of the Supreme Court's Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber and the judges involved in its rulings." The decision was made with a vote of 5 to 4. Last week, the chamber ruled in favor of PiS’s complaint regarding the rejection of its financial report by the PKW for the 2023 parliamentary elections. However, the status of the Extraordinary Control Chamber is contested by the current government, some PKW members, legal experts, and European courts.

The motion to postpone the decision was submitted by PKW member Paweł Gieras. It was supported by Ryszard Balicki, Ryszard Kalisz, Maciej Kliś, and Konrad Składowski, in addition to Gieras. Opposing the postponement were Sylwester Marciniak, Wojciech Sych, Arkadiusz Pikulik, and Mirosław Suski.