Polish PM Tusk vows support for tribunal amid court crisis
Tusk says the tribunal will operate under the constitution as protesters and riot police gather outside the court during a dispute over judicial control.
- On Friday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government suspended Constitutional Tribunal president Bogdan Zwi, citing repeated legal violations and interference with the court's work.
- Tusk's administration argues this action corrects years of lawlessness under the Law and Justice party, which the European Union previously accused of imposing political control over judicial institutions.
- Police detained three protesters Friday night after crowds, including PiS leader Jarosław Kaczynski, rallied outside the tribunal and attempted to forcefully enter the building.
- President Karol Nawrocki invited parliamentary parties to talks on Saturday to address the crisis; representatives from Poland 2050 and PSL met with him while Tusk did not attend.
- The standoff deepens political polarization ahead of next year's parliamentary elections. Tusk stated his government will press forward with efforts to restore judicial independence despite the "painful" and difficult process.
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Explainer: How Poland's Constitutional Tribunal row affects its politics?
WARSAW, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- A leadership dispute at Poland's Constitutional Tribunal has sparked a political confrontation, with the court's top two officials declared suspended and opposition supporters taking to the streets to accuse Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government of trying to take control of the court.
The most controversial issue is still uncertain between the Head of State Karol Nawrocki and the head of government Donald Tusk on the Constitutional Tribunal. But the clash is political between the nationalist forces, who support the first, and the Europeanist forces that stand with the second. A weakness that the country closest to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict cannot afford
The dispute over control of the court pits Donald Tusk's government against President Karol Nawrocki and the conservative opposition.
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