nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210422-101223-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210422s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210422-101223-0 doi eng 342 23 Matczak, Marcin Author aut And Now His Watch Is Ended The removal of the Polish Citizens’ Rights Ombudsman, Dr. Adam Bodnar Matczak, Marcin Verfassungsblog 2021-04-22 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier When democratic institutions are captured by an authoritarian government, they not only cease to hold the government accountable, or even restrain its megalomaniacal tendencies, but can be actively used to capture other democratic institutions. This was recently the case in Poland, as the ruling "Law and Justice" party removed a particularly annoying irritant: the Polish Citizens’ Rights Ombudsman, Dr. Adam Bodnar. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Ombudsman Poland Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/ombudsman-bodnar/ raw object