“We will consistently strive to take up our office. The decision is quite simple, clear, final and, for the time being at least, indisputable – we will see what the next minutes bring”, argues “anti-judge” of the Constitutional Tribunal, Krystian Markiewicz. Together with the others, he announced that they would deliver the ECHR decision to the President of the Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski.
The European Court of Human Rights issued an interim measure yesterday ordering Poland to “ensure that its competent public authorities refrain from hindering the assumption and exercise of judicial duties by the judges of the Constitutional Tribunal elected by the Sejm on 13 March 2026.”
The case concerns four “anti-judges” of the Constitutional Tribunal: Marcin Dziurda, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, Krystian Markiewicz and Maciej Taborowski, who on 9 April took an oath in the Sejm “before the President of the Republic of Poland”, although the President was not present in the Sejm.
Legal experts point out that the ECHR decision has no legal force. Attorney Bartosz Lewandowski assessed that the body’s actions amount to “a legal usurpation.”
Nevertheless, for the policy of the ruling coalition, this is a reason to speak of a “forceful variant.”
Markiewicz picks up the topic
The ECHR decision has pleased the “anti-judges” of the Constitutional Tribunal.
Krystian Markiewicz, surrounded by the other judges during today’s press conference in front of the entrance to the Constitutional Tribunal, said that together they would hand the ECHR decision to Bogdan Święczkowski, President of the Tribunal.
“Yesterday we received the ECHR decision concerning an interim measure intended to ensure that the authorities in Poland do not interfere with judges elected on 13 March in taking up judicial office. Today we will deliver this decision to the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, as well as to all judges of the Constitutional Tribunal”, he announced.
As he stated, the group will await a meeting and “a reaction from the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, not the spokesperson, to this ruling.”
“We will consistently strive to take up our office. The decision is quite simple, clear, final and, for the time being at least, indisputable – we will see what the next minutes bring”, he said.