“Minister Żurek, your bill is essentially a plagiarism of solutions prepared by your predecessor, who is no longer here. And you too, sooner than you think, will no longer be at the Ministry of Justice,” wrote Zbigniew Bogucki, Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, on social media. “Minister, February is passing, and the presidential draft bill is still not here. I would gladly assess its value,” Waldemar Żurek attacked today on platform X, citing Zbigniew Bogucki’s words from a November interview with Dziennik Gazeta Prawna: “The President wants to establish a Council for the Repair of the State System, whose task will include preparing a draft law on the National Council of the Judiciary, so that it can be presented no later than January next year.”
Żurek continues: “Instead, there is a government bill. Passed by a democratic majority in Parliament. A bill that will quickly end this crisis.”
Bogucki responds!
Żurek did not have to wait long for a reply from the Head of the President’s Chancellery.
“Minister Żurek, your bill is essentially a plagiarism of solutions prepared by your predecessor, who is no longer here. And you too, sooner than you think, will no longer be at the Ministry of Justice, and there will be no room for this botched law that tries to exclude hundreds of judges from the possibility of running for the National Council of the Judiciary and to entrench the privileges of those who consider themselves ‘a completely extraordinary caste’.” He also wrote on platform X. As he emphasized, “People like you are responsible for the crisis – those who divide judges, recognize rulings only when they suit them, and brutally attack judicial independence, including by undermining the principle expressed in Article 180(1) of the Constitution. Learn three simple words: Judges are irremovable.”
He also pointed out: “Although perhaps I am expecting too much from you when on February 5 you write that February is passing.”
You were given time and a chance to prove yourself, but this time you crashed on your own. Now, first the botched laws you produced must be cleaned up, criticized by the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Supreme Court, the National Council of the Judiciary, the Supreme Administrative Court, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, and every decent lawyer, and then you will see how good law is made.
“PS. It is pathetic when someone who cannot ensure timely assistance from the Justice Fund for victims of crime and is part of a team that over two years ago lied to Poles that it would deliver 100 policies in 100 days tries to hold others to account for time,” Bogucki concluded.