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The judicial reforms of the new centre-left government in Poland continue to meet with stubborn resistance from the country’s conservatives who were voted out of office. President Andrzej Duda, the last representative of the former ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) with powers, has forwarded the new government’s changes to the National Council of the Judiciary to the Constitutional Court for review. The move was announced by Duda’s head of chancellery Malgorzata Paprocka in Warsaw on Friday. She had called the new regulations “blatantly unconstitutional” in July. The law cannot come into forc…

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