On Wednesday, the Labor and Social Insurance Chamber of the Supreme Court received appeals from PiS MPs Maciej Wąsik and Mariusz Kamiński against the decision to terminate their mandate, sent by the Speaker of the Seimas, Szymon Holownia.
On Thursday, a notice appeared on the website of the Supreme Court regarding the order of the President of the Criminal Justice Chamber, Zbigniew Karpinski, who decided, in the absence of the First President of the Supreme Court, Malgorzata Manowski, that the case of the expiration of the parliamentary mandate of Mariusz Kaminski should be transferred from the Chamber of Labor to the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs.
“The materials of the above case registered in the Chamber of Labor and Social Insurance will be immediately transferred to the competent chamber of the Supreme Court, i.e. the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs,” the statement said.
A double vote in the Supreme Court. The President of the Chamber of Labor will not deliver the cases
The President of the Chamber of Labor, Piotr Prusinowski, is not going to defend the decision. In an interview with Polsat News, the judge said that Karpinski's order was illegal.
– I'm not going to do that. Even if hypothetically I wanted to do it, I don't know how – he said and asserts that the date of hearing the case (January 10) and the composition of the court have already been determined.
– For me, this is such a dark humor. I should go to the judges, take the cases and say: you are not a judge, won't you judge this case? I do not have such authority, and neither does President Karpinski, whom he knows well, said Prusinowski, referring to art. 28 of the Law on the Supreme Court – it is written there in black and white when the so-called competence dispute – he added.
The judge admitted this theoretically in the case of Mariusz Kaminski Two conflicting conclusions can be drawn.
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