Czarzasty told a news conference ahead of the Sejm session that the presidium had recommended Krystian Markiewicz, Maciej Taborowski, Marcin Dziurda, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, Magdalena Bedkowska and Dariusz Szostek.
“The presidium recommended these people, therefore among others these names will be processed during the Sejm sitting,” he said, adding the procedure was in line with Article 30 of the Sejm’s rules.
He said the deadline for nominations was Wednesday at noon and did not say whether the conservative opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) party had already submitted its own candidates.
PiS spokesperson Rafał Bochenek said on Tuesday that the party would put forward candidates, but that their participation in the parliamentary vote would depend on a Constitutional Tribunal decision on a motion filed by PiS lawmakers.
Earlier, PiS lawmaker Marcin Warchoł said he had submitted a request to the tribunal on behalf of a group of deputies seeking an injunction to temporarily block the Sejm from electing judges until it reviewed rules governing the selection process.
The Constitutional Tribunal currently has nine of its 15 judges, leaving six vacancies, the source text said. The Sejm has so far four times failed to elect PiS-backed candidates.
In a resolution adopted in March 2024, the Sejm said that taking into account tribunal rulings issued in violation of the law could itself breach the principle of legality. It also said two sitting members of the tribunal, Jarosław Wyrembak and Justyn Piskorski, were not judges of the Constitutional Tribunal.
Since that resolution, the tribunal’s rulings have not been published in the Journal of Laws. In a December 2024 resolution, the government said publishing decisions of the tribunal in official journals could entrench a crisis in the rule of law and that “it is not permissible to publish documents issued by an unauthorized body.”
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Source: PAP