Polish President Karol Nawrocki returned to Poland on Friday, following the suspension of his far-right ally as head of the country’s top court.
“At such a moment, the President must be in Poland. I’m interrupting my flight to Senegal. “After years of PiS-led lawlessness, this is a difficult process, sometimes painful, and it requires decisive action.
Earlier reporting noted: Tusk’s government has been trying to force out the top court’s judges, who were appointed between2015 and 2023 by the previous right-wing government of the nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS), AFP reported.
This intensified the power struggle with Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government over control of the judiciary, according to news agency Reuters . I’m returning,” Nawrocki said in a post on X. There is no other way,” he said.
The Constitutional Tribunal said on Friday that its longest-serving judge, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, had suspended the tribunal’s president, Bogdan Swieczkowski, and assumed charge of the court. Meanwhile, Polish PM Tusk, in an X post on Saturday, said his government was seeking to restore the rule of law. Earlier reporting noted: Polish President’s mid-air U-turn, riot police at court, street protests: Poland’s top court crisis deepens Poland was plunged into a political crisis on Saturday after the suspension of the country’s constitutional tribunal chief, in a battle between Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist government and the nationalist right for control of the judiciary.
