Tusk Pushes Tribunal Overhaul After Suspending Court Chief as 3 Are Detained in Poland Protests
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Updated · CNN · Oct 31
Tusk Pushes Tribunal Overhaul After Suspending Court Chief as 3 Are Detained in Poland Protests
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Oct 31
Summary
Donald Tusk said his government will press ahead with remaking Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal after suspending its president, Bogdan Święczkowski, despite a second night of protests outside the court.
The government says Święczkowski repeatedly broke the law and obstructed the tribunal’s work, part of Tusk’s broader effort to restore judicial independence after years of PiS influence over the courts.
Three protesters were detained Friday night after some tried to breach a security fence and threw objects at police, while President Karol Nawrocki cut short a Senegal trip and returned to Warsaw.
Nawrocki, aligned with the opposition PiS, helped Święczkowski enter the tribunal and invited parties to crisis talks, but Tusk skipped them as the president’s camp sought to peel away coalition allies.
The clash deepens a long-running rule-of-law battle that once drew EU fines on Poland and now threatens sharper polarization a year before the next parliamentary election.