Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he does not plan to attend Monday’s meeting at the Presidential Palace on the Constitutional Tribunal. He said that “the matter of the Constitutional Tribunal is settled” and that he is not waiting for “the approval of those who spent years wrecking the justice system in Poland.”
On Thursday, presidential spokesman Rafał Leśkiewicz announced that President Karol Nawrocki is inviting representatives of political groups on Monday to discuss fixing the situation surrounding the Constitutional Tribunal. He added that the head of the president’s chancellery, Zbigniew Bogucki, has been designated to lead the meeting. On Friday in Dublin, Prime Minister Donald Tusk was asked about the meeting at the Chancellery of the President (KPRP).
“The matter of the Constitutional Tribunal is settled. That doesn’t mean the president, or PiS, or Konfederacja has accepted the situation. But I am not waiting for approval from those who for years wrecked the justice system in Poland, including the Constitutional Tribunal. They were and still are about wrecking and blocking, and we are about building and repairing. The Constitutional Tribunal is on a difficult road to repair. It has started work, and it’s worth coming to terms with that fact. So I am not going either,” Tusk said.
Earlier, Tusk had been asked to comment on a letter from the Gdańsk-Śródmieście District Prosecutor’s Office, which wants to question President Karol Nawrocki as a witness in an investigation into the takeover of a studio apartment in Gdańsk. The prime minister said, “that is the president’s problem.”
“He knows best what he has to explain from his life story and what he doesn’t. I won’t interfere in that anymore. People have a right to know. They actually know everything about me. I invite him once again to my home, because it would be a chance to see how I live,” Tusk said.
Tusk was referring to an invitation he issued on Wednesday. He said then that he was inviting the president and his family to his home in Sopot.
According to PAP’s findings on Thursday, politicians from the Left (Lewica) do not intend to attend Monday’s meeting on the Tribunal, while the Civic Coalition (Koalicja Obywatelska) is waiting for an invitation. Politicians from PSL, Polska 2050, Razem, Konfederacja, Law and Justice (PiS) and Rozwój Plus are expected to attend. (PAP)
