Poland constitutional crisis: Poland is facing a constitutional confrontation after the suspension of its Constitutional Tribunal president triggered overnight protests in Warsaw, three detentions, and a dramatic intervention by President Karol Nawrocki, who turned his plane back from Senegal.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Constitutional Tribunal on Friday night after the court's website announced the suspension of president Bogdan Swieczkowski and vice president Bartlomiej Sochanski. Police said three people were detained after some demonstrators threw objects at officers and tried to break through the security fence. The government says Swieczkowski repeatedly broke the law; the tribunal has denied the suspension on social media, calling it a coup d'etat, a claim the government disputes and which has not been independently established. President Nawrocki returned to Warsaw, went to the tribunal, and called parliamentary group heads to an urgent Saturday meeting on stabilizing the political situation. The dispute traces back to judicial reforms from 2015 and the long-running clash between Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European government and the Law and Justice party over judicial independence.
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