Representatives of the government want to take control of the Constitutional Tribunal in order to bypass the vetoes of President Karol Nawrocki, said MEP Patryk Jaki. Speaking on Telewizja Republika, he also pointed to two other reasons why the situation surrounding the Tribunal is, in his view, “a matter of our state’s sovereignty.”
The Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General, Waldemar Żurek, announced that two Constitutional Tribunal judges, Magdalena Bentkowska and Dariusz Szostek, had filed a notification with the Prosecutor General regarding a suspected crime committed to the detriment of judges elected on 13 March 2026 by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland: Krystian Markiewicz, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, Marcin Dziurda, and Maciej Taborowski. The case concerns their alleged exclusion from performing their duties. The four individuals named have not taken the oath of office before President Karol Nawrocki.
The aforementioned notification to the prosecutor’s office was the subject of an evening discussion on Telewizja Republika, where PiS MEP Patryk Jaki was a guest. According to him, the Constitutional Tribunal is intended—under the ruling camp’s plan—to become another institution, after the prosecution service, the courts, and public television, that will be taken over by force.
“We are the only country in the Western world—because of Tusk—where one can experience this kind of activity,” he said.
The politician also outlined three reasons why the government is so focused on the Constitutional Tribunal. The first concerns the head of state:
“This is their way of breaking the vetoes of President Nawrocki. They want to invalidate President Nawrocki in this way, because if they have their own Tribunal, with their own people—whose level of independence is already visible—they will regularly rule that what President Nawrocki does is unlawful,” he stated.
“In this way, they will bypass those vetoes, effectively governing against the will of the democratic majority of Poles,” he added.
The second issue relates to subordinating Poland to the European Union:
“The Polish Constitutional Tribunal has been the most significant obstacle in Europe to the expanding authority of the Court of Justice of the European Union. It was from the Polish Constitutional Tribunal that the entire debate began over whether EU law has primacy over national law. And that is a thorn in the side of this entire German-Brussels structure,” he said.
“That is why, in my opinion, they are pressuring Tusk to do something about the Constitutional Tribunal—to finally put an end to this line of case law which shows that the Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic, because other countries are following this example,” he added.
The third issue concerns what he described as harmful environmental policy:
“We still have an unpublished ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal that blows the Green Deal apart. They want to take over the Tribunal in order to invalidate that ruling, because they know that if we return to power, we will simply publish the Tribunal’s judgments—and if the ETS collapses in Poland, it will collapse across the entire European Union,” he said.
“They [those in power] tell people this is about the law, about the constitution, and so on, but in reality it has nothing to do with that. It’s about overturning President Nawrocki’s vetoes, his rights and prerogatives granted to him in democratic elections. It’s about not publishing the Tribunal’s ruling concerning the ETS. And it’s about destroying the line of jurisprudence that the Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic—so that EU law becomes supreme instead. That is why we should not agree to this, and why we should closely follow what is happening in the Constitutional Tribunal, because it is truly a matter of our state’s sovereignty,” he concluded.