The Sejm has voted in four new members of the National Chamber of the Judiciary representing the parliament. All four were candidates of the democratic opposition groupings: Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz, Robert Kropiwnicki, Tomasz Zimoch and Anna Maria Żukowska. Candidates put forward by the still-ruling PiS party - Marek Ast, Bartosz Kownacki, Arkadiusz Mularczyk and Kazimierz Smoliński - have all been rejected in Tuesday's (Nov. 14) vote.
At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the Sejm resumed the first session of the new term it had begun the previous day. After two hours of heated debating, the lower house has appointed four new parliamentary members of the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS).
The four new members of the KRS were candidates put forward by the democratic opposition parties - Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz (246 votes), Tomasz Zimoch (246) Anna Maria Żukowska (245) and Robert Kropiwnicki (243).
Candidates put forward by the still-ruling PiS party have all been rejected - Marek Ast (193 votes), Arkadiusz Mularczyk (192), Kazimierz Smoliński (192) and Bartosz Kownacki (191).
In the previous term, all seats in the KRS reserved for representatives of the Sejm were filled by PiS MPs.
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