On 26 November 2015, the members of KOD wrote an open letter entitled "A Letter of the Citizens of the Constitutional State to
Andrzej Duda, the
President of Poland" asking him to swear in three of the five judges to the Constitutional Court. KOD argued that those three, although not the other two, were duly elected by the previous parliament. As the disagreements between the governing party and the Constitutional Court continued, KOD called for protests against what it perceives as a breach of the Constitution in violation of
democratic norms and the constitutional
separation of powers between the legislature, executive branch, and judiciary. • Demonstration, which was estimated by
Der Spiegel and
Le Monde to include 50,000 demonstrators, took place in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Court in Warsaw on 12 December 2015. Parallel demonstrations were also held in other major Polish cities, including:
Poznań (over 2,000 people),
Szczecin (over 2,000 people),
Wrocław (approx. 2,000 people),
Lublin (500), and
Bielsko-Biała (200). Most of the protests in Poland are accompanied by smaller protests by KOD cells in most European capitals and around the world, notably in Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin and the USA. In December 2019, the
Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the Committee for the Defence of Democracy organized protests throughout Poland against the
Polish judicial disciplinary panel law. ==Leadership==