🇵🇱⚔️🇵🇱 POLAND FOR DUMMIES: what's going on tonight? Poland has two bosses who hate each other.

🇵🇱⚔️🇵🇱 POLAND FOR DUMMIES: what's going on tonight?

Poland has two bosses who hate each other.

➡️Donald Tusk, Prime Minister. Former President of the European Council, Brussels' golden boy. Runs the government and parliament.

➡️Karol Nawrocki, President. Conservative, sovereigntist, backed by PiS. Holds the veto and swears in judges.

⚖️ The Constitutional Tribunal decides what's constitutional. Its judges were mostly picked by PiS, so it keeps getting in Tusk's way.

🇪🇺 Where does the EU come in? For years Brussels froze billions in funds to Poland and accused PiS of wrecking the "rule of law." When Tusk took over, the money started flowing and Brussels dropped its case against Poland, all on his promise to "fix" the courts. Tonight is that fix.

Tusk's plan: elect new judges. Nawrocki's response: refuses to swear them in. The court's president: refuses to let them work.

So tonight one of those unsworn judges declared herself boss of the court and suspended its president. Police showed up, locked him out of his own building, and a locksmith had to cut the gate chain so he could get back onto the grounds. Nawrocki turned his plane around mid-flight to rush home.

Tusk calls it "restoring the rule of law." The opposition calls it a coup.

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