Seven long-serving judges at the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, composed of 15 judges, have released this Saturday a statement in which they criticize the "completely illegal" action of the body itself after the suspension of its president and vice president, replaced by a judge close to the prime minister, Donald Tusk.
"In view of the events that took place on October 30, 2026 at the headquarters of the Constitutional Tribunal, which we consider completely illegal, we appeal to the constitutional bodies of the Republic of Poland and to the political forces to adopt immediate effective measures with the objective of resolving the current situation regarding the Constitutional Tribunal," they stated.
In the text, the judges underline the importance of "maintaining the principles of the democratic rule of law," according to the statement released on social media by the Supreme Court judge Kamil Zaradkiewicz.
The statement bears the signature of Bogdan Swieczkowski, Bartlomiej Sochanski, Stanislaw Piotrowicz, Jakub Stelina, Wojciech Sych, Rafal Wojciechowski and Jaroslaw Wyrembak. Swieczkowski and Sochanski have been suspended for a month by judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, who has proclaimed herself president of the Constitutional Tribunal.
In recent months, the Executive headed by Donald Tusk has promoted the appointment of up to six new members of the Constitutional Tribunal, although the president of the country, Karol Nawrocki, has only agreed to swear in two of them.
The institutional crisis broke out definitively on Friday, when judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska decided on her own to suspend for one month the president of the tribunal, Bogdan Swieczkowski, and his deputy, Bartlomiej Sochanski, while the headquarters of the Constitutional Tribunal remained surrounded by a large police deployment under the command of Tusk's Government.
Nawrocki managed to enter the tribunal building at night and, upon leaving, announced a round of consultations with the parties represented in Parliament and denounced that the constitutional order had been violated. At the same time, demonstrators continue to gather in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Tribunal, guarded by the Police.