Sejm chooses new top court's justice amid controversies

Sejm, a lower chamber of Polish parliament, has chosen Zbigniew Jędrzejewski as a new Constitutional Tribunal justice. With 233 MPs present and voting, 227 were for and 6 abstained. The voting wasn't free from controversies. Małgorzata Zwiercan from parliamentary club Kukiz'15 has been caught "ghost voting" as she cast the vote for her absent colleague Kornel Morawiecki. He explained that he "asked her to do it," because he felt ill. Morawiecki said that "nothing bad has happened... I believe that if I asked somebody, then its morally legitimate [to vote in his name]." Zwiercan admitted to wrongdoing. She was later expelled from her parliamentary club and Morawiecki has quit. Now, the two may face criminal charges. Following the incident, opposition leaders demanded a repeat vote, but the Marshall of the Sejm refused.