“We are meeting in a situation of serious constitutional crisis, so we cannot remain indifferent,” President Karol Nawrocki said as he opened a meeting of the National Security Council (RBN). He said the country is facing a situation in which “the most serious allegations of illegality in the government’s actions toward the Constitutional Tribunal (TK) are justified.”
The president said he convened the National Security Council because Poland today faces decisions of fundamental importance for its security.
“The subject of our meeting was supposed to be, above all, the state and future of Polish security, including the strategic importance of the entire presence of U.S. troops on the territory of the Republic of Poland. These are matters of the highest national importance,” the president said.
He stressed that these matters require responsibility and cooperation among all of the state’s most important institutions.
“However, the actions of the government, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, last Friday mean that we are meeting today in unprecedented circumstances, in a situation of serious constitutional crisis, and so we cannot remain indifferent today,” Nawrocki said.
He added that this is a situation “in which the most serious allegations of illegality in the government’s actions toward the Constitutional Tribunal are justified.”
The president said that those who have given themselves the right to suspend judges of the Constitutional Tribunal and take over their duties are acting without any legal basis. He noted that this is confirmed by the First President of the Supreme Court and by the presidents of the Supreme Administrative Court and the National Bar Council.
“Full responsibility for this entire situation, for every police officer outside the Tribunal, for all the illegal actions such as the suspension of judges, the illegal orders, the entry into the Tribunal from the side of the prime minister’s office, rests with one man, a man who is present in this room, to whom I am smiling, although I do not understand his actions, do not accept them and oppose them, and that is Prime Minister Donald Tusk,” Nawrocki said.
He added that these actions are not only a “crime against the Polish Constitution, it is something more, it is a mistake.” “Mr. Prime Minister already knows that he made a mistake, and we both also know that today your earlier allies are missing from your side and all that is left to you is violence, which is equally disturbing,” the president said, addressing the head of government.
Nawrocki stressed that in Poland the fundamental principle is that no authority can be unlimited. “The rule of law cannot be restored by methods that themselves flagrantly violate the law,” the president declared.
Source: PAP
