{"id":5428,"date":"2026-06-23T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/president-nawrocki-to-swear-in-new-constitutional-tribunal-judge\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:00:46","slug":"president-nawrocki-to-swear-in-new-constitutional-tribunal-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/president-nawrocki-to-swear-in-new-constitutional-tribunal-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"President Nawrocki to Swear In New Constitutional Tribunal Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nawrocki is expected to preside over the swearing-in ceremony for S\u0142awomir Patyra in the coming days, following the Sejm\u2019s recent election of the legal scholar to the Constitutional Tribunal.  <\/p>\n<h4>The Parliamentary Election<\/h4>\n<p>On June 11, the Sejm elected S\u0142awomir Patyra as a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal. His candidacy, supported by KO, PSL-TD, the Left, and the Centre, received 235 votes from the 424 deputies present, with 184 votes against and five abstentions. He replaces Andrzej Zielonacki, whose term expires on June 28.<\/p>\n<h4>Presidential Consideration and Precedent<\/h4>\n<p>Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski, leader of PiS, expressed skepticism regarding Patyra\u2019s nomination, suggesting the President has a right to deliberate on the matter. Kaczy\u0144ski indicated that the President might mirror his previous approach, where he swore in only two of the six judges elected by the Sejm in March.<\/p>\n<h4>Path to the Oath<\/h4>\n<p>Although the President was expected to make a final decision on June 23, unofficial reports suggest the ceremony will occur at the Presidential Palace in the near future with full protocol. S\u0142awomir Patyra, a habilitated doctor and constitutional law expert, has served as a faculty member at the Maria Curie-Sk\u0142odowska University in Lublin since 1994 and is a practicing legal advisor.<\/p>\n<h4>Ongoing Disputes Over Tribunal Composition<\/h4>\n<p>The appointment remains part of a broader conflict regarding the Tribunal&#8217;s legitimacy. Since the March election of six new judges, the President has accepted the oaths of only two, citing procedural errors in the Sejm. This has led to a protracted legal impasse, with the four other elected judges appealing to the European Court of Human Rights and the government maintaining conflicting stances on their status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nawrocki is expected to preside over the swearing-in ceremony for S\u0142awomir Patyra in the coming days, following the Sejm\u2019s recent election of the legal scholar to the Constitutional Tribunal. The Parliamentary Election On June 11, the Sejm elected S\u0142awomir Patyra as a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal. His candidacy, supported by KO, PSL-TD, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}