Polish President Karol Nawrocki accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk of a forcible takeover of the Constitutional Tribunal after its longest-serving judge suspended tribunal president Bogdan Swieczkowski. The move escalated a long-running dispute between Nawrocki and Tusk's pro-European government over control of the judiciary.
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Late on Friday, the Constitutional Tribunal said its longest-serving judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska had suspended Bogdan Swieczkowski, the tribunal's president and an appointee of Tusk's hard-right predecessor, and was now in charge of the court.
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Tonight, there was a breach of public order in the Republic of Poland and a forcible takeover of a constitutional body
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Last month, parliament appointed Tusk ally Maciej Berek to the tribunal, which critics said undermined the government's stated goal of restoring checks and balances.
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Earlier this year, Nawrocki refused to swear in three of six judges nominated by parliament, while Swieczkowski, a former deputy justice minister in the Law and Justice administration, declined to seat judges elected by the current parliamentary majority.
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