nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170603-164015 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170603s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170603-164015 doi eng 342 23 Czarnota, Adam Author aut The Constitutional Tribunal Czarnota, Adam Verfassungsblog 2017-06-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In the present constitutional crisis, my position is that we have to criticise the changes made by the ruling party to the Constitutional Tribunal but not because they undermine rule of law in Poland and are radical. In my opinion the changes are not radical at all. We do not see changes in the “grammar” of law but we observe changes of elites with preservation of the same institutional setting. Only the aesthetic dimension of exercise of power by the government has changed. The rhetoric indeed has rapidly changed but all mechanisms remain the same. In such a situation, the “self-defence” of the institutions including constitutional tribunal in Poland is a part of the political spectacle, part of the drama by which mobilised citizens are manipulated for political gain. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-constitutional-tribunal/ raw object