The government sees the TK as illegitimate as it contains judges unlawfully appointed by the former administration.

The government sees the TK as illegitimate as it contains judges unlawfully appointed by the former administration.
The ruling, however, is likely to be ignored by the government, which does not recognise the court’s legitimacy.
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The court says that the education ministry should have first reached an agreement with the Catholic church on the changes.
Jakub Jaraczewski
The situation may take years to resolve.
The Polish court accused the EU official of “blatant encroachment on [its] exclusive competences”.
Krzysztof Mularczyk
Compromise, rather than confrontation, is the only route to a long-lasting solution.
Bogdan Święczkowski, an opposition ally, accuses Donald Tusk and others of acting as an “organised criminal group”.
The decision may further deepen Poland’s constitutional crisis, given that the government does not recognise the court’s legitimacy.
Bogdan Święczkowski served as a senior prosecutor under the former PiS government and is seen as a close ally of then justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro.
The government does not recognise the court’s legitimacy and is likely to continue to ignore it.
The government is likely to ignore the ruling as it regards the court as an unlawful body in its current form.
However, the current government does not recognise the legitimacy of many TK judges, including some of those who issued yesterday’s ruling.
Few had expected the president, an ally of the former ruling PiS party, to sign the bills.
The head of the commission, however, has dismissed the ruling as having no legal force.