Mazur: Prosecutors Must Check Whether Someone Helped the President Make an Anti-State Decision

Poland’s prosecution service wants to question President Karol Nawrocki over the refusal to admit four newly elected Constitutional Tribunal judges to judicial work. Deputy Justice Minister Dariusz Mazur said someone in the presidential office may have helped shape the decision.

The four judges were among six appointed by parliament in March 2026 whose oaths Nawrocki did not accept. They later took their oaths at a ceremony held in parliament. The judges and some legal experts say that fulfilled the requirements for them to assume their functions at the Constitutional Tribunal. Nawrocki and the tribunal’s president disagree, and the four have not received offices or cases to handle.

The National Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation into the judges’ exclusion. Mazur said the inquiry does not prejudge whether an official crime occurred. It is examining possible failure by a public official to perform official duties, as well as possible assistance. “Someone from the president’s office may have contributed in some way to this decision or reinforced Karol Nawrocki in it,” Mazur said in an interview with Radio Zet.

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Someone from the president’s office may have contributed in some way to this decision or reinforced Karol Nawrocki in it.

Nawrocki has said he will answer prosecutors’ questions, but called the case damaging to the government and unserious for the Polish state. “The president has many more matters and issues, including on the international stage, than answering the justice minister’s delusions, but of course the prosecutor will hear from me that I make all decisions myself. I invite the investigators in this case. I am a citizen like anyone else and I will answer all questions,” he said on Sept. 3.

Under Polish law, the president can be held accountable only before the State Tribunal, and that requires a two-thirds vote of the full membership of the National Assembly. Mazur said political polarization in parliament makes that practically impossible. Presidential office officials, however, can face ordinary legal proceedings, he said.

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The president has many more matters and issues, including on the international stage, than answering the justice minister’s delusions, but of course the prosecutor will hear from me that I make all decisions myself. I invite the investigators in this case. I am a citizen like anyone else and I will answer all questions.