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Police keep Poland's top court surrounded as Tusk rules out compromise with Nawrocki
Riot police remained outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal for a third day as Prime Minister Donald Tusk vowed no compromise in his clash with President Karol Nawrocki, whose office blamed Tusk personally for the standoff.
Riot police kept Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw surrounded on Sunday, Nov. 1, as a power struggle between Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Karol Nawrocki over the country's top court showed no sign of easing. Supporters waving Polish flags gathered outside the building.
'The law of the jungle'
In a televised address on Saturday, Tusk defended the suspension of the tribunal's leadership and said his government had sought a compromise with the president, "all to no avail." He said the court's judges were lawfully elected, that no politician, including the president, may obstruct their work, and that "the rule of law differs from the law of the jungle." On some issues, he said, "there can be no compromise."
Nawrocki's office hit back, saying Tusk was personally responsible for what it called an attack on the tribunal. The president has described the events as "a forcible takeover of a constitutional body."
How the crisis began
On Oct. 30, the tribunal's longest-serving judge, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, suspended court President Bogdan Swieczkowski and his deputy for one month. Police cordoned off the building and prosecutors moved to lift judges' immunity. Nawrocki, who was flying to Senegal, diverted his plane and pushed past judges at the court entrance. The tribunal has been at the center of Poland's rule-of-law dispute since 2015, with each camp refusing to recognize the other's appointees.
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