After thousands took to the streets, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki defended, on Wednesday, the enactment of a controversial judiciary reform before the European Parliament in Strasbourg as the will of the people.
The new Supreme Court law, which went into force on Tuesday, required 27 of Poland’s 72 Supreme Court judges, including its chief justice, to retire after lowering the mandatory retirement age to 65.
While the reform has earned near-universal condemnation from activists on the ground and international organisations – including NGOs and the European Commission – Morawiecki said that EU countries had the right to shape their courts in accordance to their own traditions.
Al Jazeera’s David Chater reports from Warsaw, Poland’s capital, on how the latest move has infuriated the EU.
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