Poland’s Supreme Court has ruled that the National Electoral Commission should have properly verified the party’s statutory goals before rejecting their financial report.
Supreme Court Verdict on Confederation’s Case
On Monday, January 19, the Supreme Court decided to accept the Confederation’s complaint regarding the September resolution of the National Electoral Commission (PKW). In a statement, it was noted that the PKW had previously rejected the party’s financial information about subsidies and expenses for 2024. The commission had pointed out that the party of Bosak and Mentzen had allocated over 17,000 zł from subsidy funds to purchase “Mentzen 2025” election caps. The Confederation filed the complaint with the electoral authority in early October 2025. The published communication from January 19 indicates that the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court found the party’s complaint to be justified, arguing that the PKW had not analyzed the party’s statutory goals nor verified whether the expenses were consistent with them.
PKW’s Oversight
According to the Supreme Court, the PKW should have thoroughly verified the party’s statutory goals but “failed to do so.” The court stated that the commission “categorically determined the electoral character of both the meeting on August 31, 2024, and subsequent meetings, making the arbitrary assumption that these meetings were limited exclusively to electoral agitation.” The justification further indicated that the verification conducted by the commission was not based on an analysis that could reliably demonstrate what the objectives of these meetings were in relation to the party’s statutory goals. The text further listed that the commission “excluded the possibility of achieving such goals, despite the meetings having the character of political rallies, which are in principle also permissible during the pre-election period and constitute one of the fundamental methods used by political parties to seek power in a democratic state.”
Rejection of Previous Confederation Complaint
The Supreme Court reminded that on November 12, 2025, it had rejected a complaint from the Bosak and Mentzen party regarding a March resolution by the PKW on the financial report of the party’s electoral committee from the June 2024 European Parliament elections.
