The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, has intensified this Monday his criticism against the president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, whom he fully holds responsible for the serious institutional crisis unleashed in the Constitutional Court since last Friday.
The decision of the head of state not to swear in the new Constitutional magistrates has triggered a deep division in the leadership of the court. The European Commission has backed Tusk’s position, who blames his former political adversary, the leader of Law and Justice (PiS) and former prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczinski, of coordinating a destabilization operation with the collaboration of President Nawrocki, in a context that the Government links to the influence of Russia.
This Monday, Tusk emphasized that "the solution to the conflict is simple and possible without changes to the Constitution" because "the President recognizes the judges legitimately elected by Parliament, because that is what the Constitution establishes, and they take up their functions in the Court".
However, instead of following that path, the president "has chosen a forced confrontation, which could cost Poland very dearly".
The head of the Executive has reiterated that "a democratic rule of law cannot yield to violence, regardless of how powerful the external forces supporting the PiS attack may be", and has guaranteed that the country "will not yield" to these pressures.
Tusk disseminated this message through his social networks, in his first reaction since Saturday, when he already pointed to Moscow as the ultimate responsible party for the situation. Then he pointed directly to one of the main spokesmen of the Kremlin, the Russian ex-president Dimitri Medvedev.
"(Medvedev) Stated that in Poland there has been a coup d'état, and that 'Tusk's liberals, protected by Brussels, oppress the conservatives of the PiS'. All clear", Tusk assured.