nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170717-085741 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170716s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170717-085741 doi eng 342 23 Mazzini, Mateusz Author aut For Central Europe’s Illiberal Democracies, the Worst is yet to Come Mazzini, Mateusz Verfassungsblog 2017-07-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Next week the Polish parliament will most likely pass a bill sponsored by the ruling Law and Justice party, introducing a total overhaul of the country’s judicial system. The tenures of all judges sitting on the Supreme Court, Poland’s highest judicial instance, will be immediately expired, while their successors will be installed by the justice minister. In other words, the members of the last judicial body standing in the way of Law and Justice eradicating tripartite division of powers and court independence will now be appointed by a politically tainted minister. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Jaroslaw Kaczynski judicial independence Rule of Law Viktor Orban Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/for-central-europes-illiberal-democracies-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/ raw object