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Poland's president to swear in Constitutional Tribunal judge next week: aide

23.07.2026 10:15
Polish President Karol Nawrocki will swear in Sławomir Patyra as a Constitutional Tribunal judge on July 28, his office has said.
Sławomir Patyra
Sławomir PatyraPAP/Leszek Szymański

Nawrocki will also appoint four new Supreme Court judges that day, according to the head of the President's Office, Zbigniew Bogucki.

Poland’s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, elected Patyra to the Constitutional Tribunal in June. He will replace Andrzej Zielonacki, whose nine-year term has ended.

Patyra wrote to the president in early July asking him to set a date for the oath.

Lower-house Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty later urged Nawrocki to take action allowing Patyra to assume office.

Patyra is a constitutional law scholar at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in the eastern city of Lublin, where he heads the Department of Constitutional Law.

He has also worked at Kazimierz Pułaski University in Radom, south of Warsaw, since 2013.

He will be the third Constitutional Tribunal judge sworn in by Nawrocki.

Magdalena Bentkowska and Dariusz Szostek took their oaths at the presidential palace on April 1.

The president has yet to swear in four other judges elected by lawmakers in March.

Those judges held a separate oath-taking ceremony in parliament on April 9. They later delivered written copies to the President's Office.

Nawrocki's office has argued that errors occurred during the parliamentary appointment process.

The president has asked the Constitutional Tribunal to rule on a dispute over the respective powers of the president and parliament. The status of the four judges remains unresolved.

Bogucki said Patyra's appointment concerned a clearly identified vacancy and had been conducted in line with the required procedures.

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Source: IAR/PAP