“It seems to me that something is wrong with the intellect, with the mind of the Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General,” said President Andrzej Duda, commenting on reports that Adam Bodnar had sent prosecutors to the Supreme Court.
Earlier in the day, prosecutors dispatched by Adam Bodnar entered the Supreme Court building. Their task was to carry out procedures in the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs, which rules on the validity of elections and handles election-related complaints.
“The prosecutors simultaneously demanded access to the Chamber’s secretariat and the release of case files concerning election protests, justifying their demands with orders they had received from their superiors,” the Supreme Court stated.
President Andrzej Duda addressed the matter while answering journalists’ questions during a press conference held alongside the plenary meeting of the 4th UN International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville.
“It seems to me that something is wrong with the intellect, with the mind of the Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General — someone who, on one hand, claims not to recognize the Supreme Court’s Chamber of Extraordinary Control, and on the other hand, sends prosecutors to it. And thirdly, he holds his ministerial post thanks to that very chamber, because if it hadn’t validated the election results that brought this coalition to power, he would never have become a minister,” the president emphasized.
He added that Adam Bodnar “perhaps ought to reflect a bit on his own actions.”
“If he continues like this, I hope he will eventually be held appropriately accountable — not only before God and history,” Andrzej Duda concluded.