And Now His Watch Is Ended The removal of the Polish Citizens’ Rights Ombudsman, Dr. Adam Bodnar Matczak, Marcin Author aut Text xx# 2021 Verfassungsblog 2021-04-22 eng
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 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Matczak, Marcin funded by the government Ombudsman Poland Rule of Law 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/ombudsman-bodnar/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20210422-101223-0 210422 10.17176/20210422-101223-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)