The Oath “Towards” the President and the Suspension of the Chief Justice

On Friday, 30 October, amid protests and riots in front of the Constitutional Tribunal, a group of judges elected to it this year by the centrist parliamentary majority entered its premises. One of these judges, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, suspended the court’s president and vice-president for 30 days for obstructing its work. The escalation follows months of conflict in which Polish President Karol Nawrocki refused to receive the oath of the duly elected new judges, a largely ceremonial act that completes their election.