Presidential election in Poland: control is not expected from these judges

The victory Andrzej Dudas in the presidential election in Poland on 12. July there can be no serious doubt. The Supreme court in Warsaw would not have declared the election probably also valid, if the judgment would be the end of the chamber only from judges of the national conservative government, were hand-picked. Dudas success is not abuse to be the result of Manipulation or power, but a social policy that has improved the lives of many poles. The objections against the choice of the camp of the defeated candidate, Rafał Trzaskowski therefore appear to be a mixture of political confusion and bad Verlierertum.

But they were not devoid of purpose. A judicial Review of such procedural and administrative errors, such as in the slightly more than ninety cases in which the court held the complaints to be justified, for the integrity of an election is also important, if you change the result. is

And on the other, shows the justification of the action against the unequal treatment of the candidates in the media was rejected, how dangerous is the politicization of the judiciary by the PiS-government for the Polish democracy: It is expected that these judges would control the Powerful in the case of an emergency, if the smear campaign against Trzaskowski moves in the public media according to their view, even in the context of honest reporting.

Updated Date: 03 August 2020, 16:20