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Polish Prime Minister Tusk faces accusations of a power grab as the constitutional tribunal standoff triggers ambassador resignations

President Karol Nawrocki pushes through the police cordon outside the Constitutional Tribunal shortly before 1am. Government-appointed judges had suspended the court's president, Bogdan Święczkowski, a move the tribunal itself called 'the crime of a coup d'état'.
President Karol Nawrocki pushes through the police cordon outside the Constitutional Tribunal shortly before 1am. Government-appointed judges had suspended the court's president, Bogdan Święczkowski, a move the tribunal itself called 'the crime of a coup d'état'.

Poland's constitutional tribunal standoff deepened as President Karol Nawrocki reversed course mid-flight to return to Warsaw, while ambassador resignations and open clashes between institutions widened the crisis. Tusk's government has pushed to reform courts stacked by the previous Law and Justice administration, but critics charge it is circumventing due legal process in doing so.

Russia is actively exploiting the turmoil, seizing on Poland's instability to erode European unity over Ukraine support.

Polish observers are cautioning the US mid-term electorate that democratic backsliding happens fast, but that reversing it demands years of grinding legal conflict.

The crisis has prompted ambassador resignations, with the resulting diplomatic fallout now compounding the domestic constitutional struggle.

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