He described the incident as a forcible takeover of the Tribunal.
“Tonight, the constitutional order of the Republic of Poland was violated, and a state constitutional body was seized by force,” Karol Nawrocki said.
The president is demanding that security forces leave the Constitutional Tribunal building and is holding urgent consultations with parliament.
🔘 After leaving the Constitutional Tribunal building, the Polish president announced emergency consultations with parliamentary factions. The move follows overnight events that he described as “the forcible seizure of a constitutional body”;
🔘 The president has called for police units deployed to the Tribunal by government order to be withdrawn from its premises. The stated aim of the consultations with parliamentary groups is to stabilize the country’s political situation;
🔘 The president also said that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court does not consider the actions of those who “usurped power” at the Tribunal to be lawful. The government, for its part, says the events were intended to restore the rule of law at the institution;
🔘 The conflict over Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal escalated amid a dispute over judicial appointments. The president refused to swear in three of the six judges elected by parliament. The Tribunal’s president, in turn, barred judges appointed by the parliamentary majority from taking up their duties.
On October 30, Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska announced that the Tribunal’s president and deputy president had been suspended from their duties. This triggered a new escalation in the standoff, clashes outside the institution, and mutual accusations of a coup.
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