nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170929-171918 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170929s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170929-171918 doi eng 342 23 Matczak, Marcin Author aut President Duda is Destroying the Rule of Law instead of Fixing it Matczak, Marcin Verfassungsblog 2017-09-29 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Were the president of any country to propose acts of law that remove almost half of the members of its supreme court, interrupt the constitutional term of office of the chairperson of such court, give himself the right to appoint a new chairperson of the court, and finally, interrupt the constitutionally defined term of office of a judicial council responsible for appointing judges, the consequences of such manifestly unconstitutional solutions would be massive public opposition and accusations of a coup d’état.  And yet in Poland, where this is exactly what is happening, the President’s proposals are met with understanding.  Why?  Because they are perceived as better than the even more unconstitutional proposals put forward earlier by the ruling party, Law and Justice.  funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Council of the Judiciary judicial reform Polish Supreme Court President Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/president-duda-is-destroying-the-rule-of-law-instead-of-fixing-it/ raw object