Waldemar Żurek is preparing to unlawfully remove the legally appointed Deputy Prosecutors General from office. He has commissioned legal opinions that could serve as the basis for extra-statutory action. “We know these tricks from the period of the December 13 coalition’s offensive and have described them in our numerous reports”, comment Lawyers for Poland Association.
Waldemar Żurek is moving to dismiss the legally appointed Deputy Prosecutors General. As reported by Radio Wnet, the National Prosecutor’s Office, at Żurek’s initiative, has ordered legal opinions on the matter.
Under the Act – Law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office – their dismissal requires the consent of the President of the Republic of Poland.
Article 14, para. 1
The National Prosecutor as the First Deputy Prosecutor General and the remaining Deputy Prosecutors General, in a number not exceeding seven, are appointed from among prosecutors of the National Prosecutor’s Office and dismissed from these functions by the Prime Minister upon the motion of the Prosecutor General. The National Prosecutor and the remaining Deputy Prosecutors General are appointed after obtaining the opinion of the President of the Republic of Poland and are dismissed with his written consent.
This provision was already disregarded by the current ruling camp during the attempt to dismiss National Prosecutor Dariusz Barski and to install Dariusz Korneluk in that position unlawfully. In that case as well, “legal opinions” were used as a tool to undertake steps inconsistent with the statute.
Currently – excluding the First Deputy Prosecutor General, a position held by the acting head of the National Prosecutor’s Office Dariusz Korneluk – there are seven Deputy Prosecutors General. Six of them were appointed during the tenure of Zbigniew Ziobro – Robert Hernand, Michał Ostrowski, Tomasz Janeczek, Krzysztof Sierak, Beata Marczak and Andrzej Pozorski, Director of the Main Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation. The only deputy appointed by Adam Bodnar is Jacek Bilewicz.
Lawyers for Poland: “We Know These Tricks”
“We know these tricks from the period of the December 13 coalition’s offensive and have described them in our numerous reports. Resolutions of the Sejm Chancellery, legal opinions, police units, prosecutorial turncoats on the leash of Bodnar and Żurek instead of the Constitution and statutes”, states the Polish Lawyers Association (Stowarzyszenie Prawnicy dla Polski).
.@w_zurek: te patenty z okresu walki i naporu #koalicja13grudnia znamy i opisaliśmy w naszych @PRAWNICYdlaPOL licznych raportach.
— Prawnicy dla Polski (@PRAWNICYdlaPOL) February 12, 2026
Uchwały @KancelariaSejmu, opinie prawne, policyjne @PolskaPolicja oddziały, prokuratorscy zaprzańcy na pasku @Adbodnar @w_zurek w miejsce Konstytucji…
“The previous head was saved by equally questionable opinions regarding the First Deputy Prosecutor General. Will it be the same this time? To judges and prosecutors who believe that on the grounds of this unlawfulness they will flourish like innocent lilies, building careers and rising to higher levels, we recall the words ‘mane, tekel, fares’ foretelling the fall of the Neo-Babylonian state. Your Babylon will also fall, and beneath its rubble will be buried those eager to accept undue promotions or even meekly carry out unlawful orders“, commented the Ad Vocem Association on the findings of Radio Wnet.
“In cases of official misconduct, legal opinions were usually treated as so-called cover-your-backs. Supposedly the official acted wrongly, but after all he is not a specialist, and the opinion said that… However, now we are dealing with lawyers who know exactly what they are doing. Their backsides will be exposed”, concluded prosecutor Iwona Tryfon-Wilkoszewska from Ad Vocem.