Controversial Judicial Reform: Turbulence in Poland – President Visits Constitutional Court
The parliament nominates five new judges, but right-conservative President Nawrocki refuses to swear them in. During the night, he goes to the court where demonstrators are waiting.
Poland's constitutional court crisis has escalated as President Karol Nawrocki met with judges at the Warsaw court, accompanied by Supreme Court President Zbigniew Kapinski. The meeting comes amid a long-standing dispute between the centre-left government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the right-wing opposition party PiS, which appointed Nawrocki.
Earlier, the court's website announced that its current president Bogdan Swieczkowski and deputy would be suspended for a month, to be replaced by Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, one of five new judges Nawrocki refused to swear in. Demonstrators were still gathered outside the court late in the evening.
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