Adam Bodnar asked for all protests. The Supreme Court refused

Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar received over 300 election protests from the Supreme Court, but asked the first president of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Manowska to send all registered protests – said PG spokeswoman prosecutor Anna Adamiak. Bodnar later assured that “would not allow Poles to destroy the trust of Poles in the election process.” Aleksander Stępkowski spokesman Aleksander Stępkowski also referred to the case.

Prosecutor Anna Adamiak said in a statement that by Monday Supreme Court He directed to the prosecutor general, in order to take a position, a total of 304 protests against the validity of the election of the President of the Republic of Poland. The Prosecutor General has so far presented the Supreme Court of 147 positions regarding the assessment of the legitimacy of complex protests.

“Adam Bodnar, after finding that the Supreme Court sends only some of the electoral protests brought on the basis of Article 321 of the Electoral Code, asked the first president of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Manowska to cause sending to the General Prosecutor as a participant in the participant in the proceedings in the subject of considering election protests, all protests registered in the Supreme Court,” said Adamiak.

She added that “revealed irregularities in the work of the regional electoral commissions, and especially those that could implement the features of crimes, obliged the Prosecutor General to ask the Supreme Court to enable the expression of the position regarding all election protests.”

According to Anna Adamiak's message, the response sent by the Supreme Court indicated that the decisions to deliver protests to the participants of the proceedings remain within the competence of the chairmen of the adjudicating panel or rapporteur judges.

“It was also argued that the transfer to the Prosecutor General to all accepted electoral protests to recognize it would destabilize the work of the Supreme Court recognizing protests” – reads PG spokeswoman in the communiqué.

Bodnar: I will not allow Poles to destroy the trust of Poles in the election process

Late in the evening Adam Bodnar He referred to the situation on the X. platform.

“The participation of the Prosecutor General in proceedings before the Supreme Court regarding electoral protests is necessary for the correctness of these proceedings. For my part I will use all the possibilities that each protest is considered in accordance with the law and that the result of the election does not raise doubts” – he assured.

He also presented in the details “today's state of facts illustrating the course of recognizing protests” presidential elections.

“Free choices are a essence of democracy. I will not allow Poles to destroy the trust of Poles in the election process in Poland,” he added at the end.

The Supreme Court with “work destabilization”

Bodnar was replied by the president of the Extraordinary and Public Affairs Chamber Krzysztof Wiak. His letter is dated June 20. “I assure you that all orders on the delivery of copies of protests, as well as decisions on the merger of cases, are carried out without undue delay. Moreover, the Prosecutor General will be delivered to notifications about explicit meetings of the Supreme Court in matters in which they will be appointed” – wrote Judge Wiak.

He added that election protests are sent by voters for the most part of cases without copies and to deliver them to participants of the procedure, the Supreme Court employees must make copies and draw up the thesis.

“Adoption at the current stage for delivery of copies of all protests, while the Supreme Court is efficiently struggling with the significant influence of cases, you should pick up than attempt to destabilize the court's work. Due to the unprecedented influx of cases, I ask for patience in anticipation of the copies of protests, as well as the decision, as well as understanding, as well Clapse of the efficient work of the Supreme Court employees ” – wrote the president of the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court.

SN spokesman: Maybe the Prosecutor General is about printing more paper

Aleksander Stępkowski spokesman Aleksander Stępkowski also took the floor in the case.

He indicated that this was a statutory requirement that in the electoral protest, allegations regarding violation of the provisions of law protecting the correctness of the election process must be formulated. “

– If such allegations were formulated in one protest and later duplicated 20,000 times, then no 20,000 allegations are made of it. These are the same allegations all the time. Therefore, also in the interests of the smoothness of work in the prosecutor's office, (…), in such duplicated protests, we do not apply for positions, because these positions Prosecutor General has already taken the same allegations – he said.

– Of course, I understand that perhaps the Prosecutor General wants to print more paper, to use more scratches of paper, to also use more toners in printers, and above all to somehow extend the process of recognizing protests and delay the decision on the validity of the elections. However, the Supreme Court feels bound by these instructional terms that are in the electoral code – said Stępkowski.

– Therefore, the Supreme Court, having all the material, i.e. also the position of the Prosecutor General regarding the allegations formulated in individual protests, is able to proceed and we do not have to multiply, multiply applications to the Prosecutor General in a situation where we have multiplicated electoral protests – the spokesman of the Supreme Court continued.

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