“The President has of course not yet made a final decision regarding the remaining judges, however, it seems quite obvious that one does not respond to invitations to various locations that go beyond the legal framework provided for such ceremonies as receiving the oath from Constitutional Tribunal judges. This should take place at the premises of the President’s Chancellery, not somewhere in the Sejm,” Adam Andruszkiewicz, Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, said in response to a question from the editorial team of the Niezalezna.pl portal about whether the president intends to appear in the Sejm tomorrow at the “invitation of the Constitutional Tribunal judges”.
As reported today by the Niezalezna.pl portal, four Constitutional Tribunal judges elected in March sent letters to President Karol Nawrocki inviting him to the Sejm at 1:30 PM on Thursday to take their oaths before him. If the oath is taken in the parliament building without the president, it will constitute a constitutional coup.
Marcin Dziurda, one of the four Constitutional Tribunal judges who were not invited to the Presidential Palace to take the oath, sent a letter to President Karol Nawrocki in which he emphasized that he has an “obligation to immediately begin performing” his judicial duties.
“In the absence of any response from the Chancellery of the President, I hereby invite the President on April 9, 2026, at 1:30 PM to the plenary hall of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, where I will take the oath in order to assume the duties of a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal”, reads the letter from Judge Dziurda.
Krystian Markiewicz, also elected as a Constitutional Tribunal judge in March, said that, in addition to Dziurda, similar letters had been sent to the president by the other three judges, himself, Maciej Taborowski, and Anna Korwin-Piotrowska. He added that the judges are inviting the president for the same time, 1:30 PM.
So far, President Karol Nawrocki has received the oaths from two of the six judges elected on March 13 by the Sejm, Dariusz Szostek and Magdalena Bentkowska. Explaining why the oath was taken from only two judges, the head of the Chancellery of the President, Zbigniew Bogucki, pointed out that during Nawrocki’s presidency, two vacancies arose in the Constitutional Tribunal, and receiving the oath from two individuals “will fulfill the statutory requirement” of 11 judges for a full bench. At the time when the Sejm elected the judges in March, there were nine judges in the Tribunal. According to information provided by Bogucki, the situation of the remaining four judges is being analyzed by the President’s Chancellery, and no decision has yet been made.
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The editorial team of Niezalezna.pl spoke about this matter with Adam Andruszkiewicz, Deputy Head of the President’s Chancellery. He was asked whether, if the judges take the oath in the Sejm without the president, it would constitute a constitutional coup.
“Yes, it will be a constitutional coup, and it seems, as experts say, that such an oath will be invalid. The law clearly states that Constitutional Tribunal judges must take the oath before the President of the Republic of Poland, not somewhere in the Sejm. I do not know before whom, whether the Speaker or Mr. Tusk. Therefore, the judges must be aware that by acting in this way, they will not be fully legitimate judges, to put it plainly,” Andruszkiewicz replied.
In his opinion, “the attempt to draw the president into this game is unserious, because the president has a clear prerogative here. He has not yet decided whether he will receive oaths from additional Constitutional Tribunal judges or not. Attempts to change the legal rules and organize a pseudo-oath outside the Presidential Palace will be legally ineffective”.
“What does the president intend to do with this invitation?” he was asked.
“The President has of course not yet made a final decision regarding the remaining judges, however, it seems quite obvious that one does not respond to invitations to various locations that go beyond the legal framework provided for such ceremonies as receiving the oath from Constitutional Tribunal judges. This should take place at the premises of the President’s Chancellery, not somewhere in the Sejm. Setting or attempting to impose the place and time of a meeting on the president by anyone is unserious, because he is the head of state. Such events are arranged with the President, not imposed on him,” he replied.