After "hundreds of thousands of Poles took to the streets", the Polish president Andrzej Duda has decided to veto two of three proposed reforms to the judiciary, says Christian Davies in The Guardian. The suggested changes would have "allowed the justice minister to immediately fire all Supreme Court justices and choose their replacements". Critics claim that this would have "given the government control over the country's judicial system". However, he still accepted legislation that "allows the justice minister, who is also the prosecutor general, to name the heads of all lower courts".
Duda's vetoes may be part of a clever tactical move by the ruling party "to make the matter murkier by creating the impression that the political control wouldn't be limited to the ruling party", says Leonid Bershidsky on Bloomberg. Indeed, the Polish president has said that he only wants the bills "fine-tuned" rather than scrapped entirely. And "after this anticlimax", opposition to the amended bills "may well be less spirited".
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