Streit um Verfassungsgericht in Polen eskaliert
What happened
Polish police secured the grounds of the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw after a judge warned them of possible threats to the safety of judges and staff, police said.
The trigger was a notice on the court's website saying that court president Bogdan Swieczkowski and his deputy were suspended for a month and that judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska would lead the court.
Soon afterwards a post on the court's X account denied this, saying Swieczkowski remained in office and that Korwin-Piotrowska could not stand in for him because the president had not sworn her in; the court called it a coup.
In the evening many demonstrators, mostly supporters of the opposition PiS, gathered outside the building, and three people were detained after some tried to break through barriers, police said.
President Karol Nawrocki cut short a planned trip to Senegal, flew back to Warsaw and went to the court, where he told Korwin-Piotrowska and other judges they were not constitutional judges.
Nawrocki called for talks among all parties in parliament and for police to be withdrawn from the building.
“You are not constitutional judges!”
Tagesschau · translated
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- 2026-10-30 23:10 UTCNZZ · nzz.ch ↗
- 2026-10-31 00:43 UTCTagesschau · tagesschau.de ↗
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