# Legal doubts over assuming the Constitutional Tribunal president’s duties

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2116646326826148346
- Source account: [@JanMolski](https://x.com/JanMolski)
- Source language: Polish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:00
- Published: 2026-10-31
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hMqsIYgI19NW/en/legal-doubts-over-assuming-the-constitutional-tribunal-president-s-duties) If you ask me about the legal basis for this order, I have serious doubts about the coherence of that legal basis and the possibility of invoking Article 130.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hMqsIYgI19NW/en/legal-doubts-over-assuming-the-constitutional-tribunal-president-s-duties?t=10) And I have serious doubts about the authority of Ms. Korwin-Piotrowska to take over the duties of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal. I will explain it to you very simply.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hMqsIYgI19NW/en/legal-doubts-over-assuming-the-constitutional-tribunal-president-s-duties?t=21) Invoking Art— invoking Article 130 of the Act on the Organization of Common Courts is possible under the provisions of the Act on the Supreme Court, but the Act on the Status of Constitutional Tribunal Judges refers to the Act on the Supreme Court only with regard to the rights and duties of a judge. It does not refer to Article 10,

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hMqsIYgI19NW/en/legal-doubts-over-assuming-the-constitutional-tribunal-president-s-duties?t=38) which is a general provision located in the general part altogether.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hMqsIYgI19NW/en/legal-doubts-over-assuming-the-constitutional-tribunal-president-s-duties?t=41) And this is a provision— But the Constitutional Tribunal is not an ordinary court.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hMqsIYgI19NW/en/legal-doubts-over-assuming-the-constitutional-tribunal-president-s-duties?t=45) That's what I'm saying. Therefore, to move into the realm of the law on the organization of ordinary courts, you also need a provision conferring authority and referring to the Supreme Court Act.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hMqsIYgI19NW/en/legal-doubts-over-assuming-the-constitutional-tribunal-president-s-duties?t=53) And there is no cascading reference here.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/hMqsIYgI19NW/en/legal-doubts-over-assuming-the-constitutional-tribunal-president-s-duties?t=56) In short, that chain is broken.