The Constitutional Tribunal decided today that the activities of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) are incompatible with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. The request in this matter was recently submitted by President of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki. The Tribunal’s decision implies the delegalization of the party.
“In the legal system of the Republic of Poland there is no place for a party that glorifies criminals and communist regimes responsible for the death of millions of human beings, including our compatriots, citizens of Poland”, said Constitutional Tribunal judge Krystyna Pawłowicz in the reasoning for the ruling. The Tribunal issued the decision in full composition under the chairmanship of President Bogdan Święczkowski.
According to the law on political parties, “if the Constitutional Tribunal issues a ruling declaring the objectives or activities of a political party to be unconstitutional, the court shall immediately issue a decision to remove the political party from the registry.”
The first request to ban the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) was submitted in 2020 by then Attorney General Zbigniew Ziobro. Representatives of the PG have not appeared at Tribunal hearings since 2024 and the change of government. Meanwhile, the applicant’s presence at a hearing before the Tribunal in such a case is mandatory. Recently, in November this year, a similar request to ban the KPP was submitted by President Karol Nawrocki. “They have a hymn, ‘The Internationale’ – ‘The struggle will be our last,’ and this is why I request that the Constitutional Tribunal end this struggle, so that, applying the provisions of the Constitution, it will be the final act of the legal existence and activity in Poland of a party under the name Communist Party of Poland”, said one of the president’s representatives before the Tribunal, constitutional law expert Prof. Dariusz Dudek.
Meanwhile, Beata Karoń, chairwoman of the KPP’s national executive committee, told the Tribunal that her organization has “a certain vision of what it wants.” “If what we propose is so unattractive, then we simply will not gain support in elections, we will not register a list, and we will present our demands within our own circle”, she emphasized.
A political party is entered into the registry of political parties maintained by the VII Civil, Family and Registration Division – Registration Section of the District Court in Warsaw. A political party acquires legal personality at the moment of its entry into the registry. The Communist Party of Poland is listed in this registry under number 152. It was entered into the register in October 2002 and is headquartered in Tarnowskie Góry.