2024-08-20 15:07 update: 2024-08-22, 14:40
Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
Provisions of the State Tribunal Act relating to procedures of the Polish lower house committee, scrutinising potential wrongdoings by the central bank head, are unconstitutional, the Constitutional Tribunal, the country’s highest court, ruled on Tuesday.
"The powers of the Constitutional Accountability Committee far exceed the powers of the Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament- PAP) provided for in the Polish constitution," said Judge Krystyna Pawlowicz, justifying the ruling.
Therefore, she added, any proceedings conducted based on provisions deemed unconstitutional "lose their legal basis".
In March, a group of MPs from the ruling coalition filed a preliminary motion with the Sejm to bring Adam Glapinski, the governor of the National Bank of Poland, before the State Tribunal, a constitutional body for trying officials holding high office, over allegations that he broke both the law and the Polish Constitution.
In May, Szymon Holownia, the Sejm speaker, sent the preliminary motion for the State Tribunal for the NBP head to be processed by the Sejm's Constitutional Accountability Committee.
In July, PAP learnt that the Constitutional Accountability Committee may convene in September to process the motion.
Poland's new government has accused Glapinski of putting political loyalties before the interests of the Polish economy during the years of the previous Law and Justice (PiS) government, which was in office from 2015 until December last year. (PAP)
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