Warsaw: Poland President Andrzej Duda said Friday he saw the need for changes to his country law about disciplining judges, in significant change in the tone of the problem that had brought a tense spat and compiled with the European Union authorities.
Duda commented on the letters from the head of the Poland’s top of the Court to him and other senior figures to start changes that would eliminate defects in the Polish law and make it in line with the law of the EU.
Duda told the Pap State Entity that he agreed with the President of the court and that “everything shows that legislative changes will be needed.” He insisted on the importance of a disciplining judge system, but said the judges must be sure that it was “truly transparent, fair and honest.” His words hit different tones from the government’s insistence in recent years that the disciplinary procedure was only for the goodness of the court and that the European Union did not say about the Polish organization or other UE justice systems.
Four letters were written for the widower, to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and to speakers from two parliamentary rooms by the First President of the Supreme Court, Judge Malgorzata Manowska, requested changes to the law, published on the Friday website.
The UE Justice court said earlier this month that the way Poland disciplined his judges to damage the independence of the justice and violate the UE law, because it was politicized.
Poland joined the European Union in 2004.
It told the Polish government, which compiled regulations, to immediately suspend the disciplinary body in the Supreme Court and introduce changes, under the threat of financial sanctions and others.
Adding a fight against the EU for the rules of legal and polish justice organizations, the government has ignored the command, for that reason it has the responsibility for the justice system.
In his letters, the Manowska government loyalist appealed “Swift, but first of all the efforts thought well in the law” which will eliminate deficiency and make it happen with European law.
The four figures have the power to propose and enforce laws.
Manowska appealed to them to protect “common goodness who is Poland” and said that Judicial disputes with the EU have paralyzed the disciplinary process.
Earlier this week, 47 Supreme Court judges, together with thousands of judges and other prosecutors, have signed an appeal for the government to heed the EU court decision and immediately suspend the disciplinary room.
Under the right-wing government that won power in 2015, Poland was in a dispute that intensified the EU when the government confirmed more political control over the justice system and state court.
The Polish Constitutional Court decided last week that the temporary commandment issued by the EU court on the national justice was inexperienced.
One of them is an order for suspension of the body that disciplines high judges.
However, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said last week that he would not exclude the possible review of the discipline room, said it had not fulfilled all the expectations placed in it.
A few days earlier, he met the head of the European Union Council, Ursula Von Der Leyen, for talks including Polish justice.
A number of Polish judges who were critical of the right-wing government had been suspended with disciplinary procedures, but the suspension was declared illegally by several lower courts, which questioned the disputed discipline agency authority.