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Dr hab. Jan Chmielewski
ORCID: 0000-0001-5818-7339

Doctor of Laws, professor at the Department of Administrative and Public Economic Law at the College of Law at Kozminski University. Employee at the General Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Administrative Court.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2023.6.5
JEL: K23

The judicature of the administrative courts shows a lack of uniformity in assessing the admissibility of lodging of the appeal to the administrative court on the resolution of the commune council on holding a referendum on the dismissal of the commune head (mayor, president of the city) by the person holding the office of the executive body of the commune. For a long time, the dominating position was in favour of the admissibility of a complaint in such cases, due to the provision of judicial protection to the commune head (mayor, president of the city) in a case aimed at examining the legality of an act of a commune body. However, a different view was expressed e.g. in the decision of the Supreme Administrative Court of October 19, 2022, ref. act III OSK 1560/22. According to the glossator, this view deserves full approval, because in the case of these resolutions, it is impossible to speak of a violation of a legal interest (entitlement), on which the legislator based the effective lodging of the appeal to the administrative court.

Keywords: administrative law; administrative courts proceedings; commune self-government