The dispute surrounding the Constitutional Tribunal is intensifying. Minister of Justice Waldemar Żurek announced that a notification has been filed with the National Prosecutor’s Office regarding the “blocking of work” of four Constitutional Tribunal judges. In response, Deputy Prosecutor General Michał Ostrowski issued a strongly worded statement, while social media saw a wave of critical comments questioning the credibility of the ministry’s actions.
The head of the Ministry of Justice and Prosecutor General, Waldemar Żurek, reported that two Constitutional Tribunal judges, Magdalena Bentkowska and Dariusz Szostek, had submitted a notification to the Prosecutor General concerning a suspected crime committed to the detriment of judges elected on March 13, 2026, by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland: Krystian Markiewicz, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, Marcin Dziurda, and Maciej Taborowski.
Żurek added that the National Prosecutor’s Office has received a notification regarding a suspected criminal offense in connection with the situation in the Constitutional Tribunal.
According to him, the matter concerns four “properly elected judges” who, by his account, have not been provided with the conditions necessary to perform their duties.
“They have not been assigned offices. They have not been given cases. The documents required for them to exercise their office have not been prepared,”
he wrote.
Żurek described the situation as an example of “manual control over an institution that is meant to safeguard the Constitution,” adding that the Tribunal “must be returned to the citizens, rather than remain a private fiefdom of people accustomed to impunity.”
The minister’s post drew a sharp response from Deputy Prosecutor General Michał Ostrowski.
“IS IT EASY TO LIE IN PLEASANT COMPANY, MINISTER? Please clean your desk of those trinkets. And then your thoughts. Prosecutors do not want to be drawn into politics. This is a demeaning of our service,”
he stated.
Social media users also voiced criticism, challenging Żurek’s narrative. One commenter wrote:
“‘Manual control of the Tribunal is a crime!’ says the minister who is himself manually controlling the prosecution to pursue someone for not providing desks to ‘judges’ who took their oath in front of a wall rather than before the President,”
one user remarked.