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Politico (3 November 2026)

Wojciech KOŚĆ and Bartosz BRZEZIŃSKI

PM Tusk’s government frames the battle over the Constitutional Tribunal as an effort to restore the rule of law, his enemies call it a coup.

The battle over who rules Poland is being fought in front of a cream-colored palace in central Warsaw — surrounded by police and protesters — that houses the country’s top constitutional court.

Liberal, pro-EU Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to roll back changes to the Constitutional Tribunal made by the previous nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party government, while President Karol Nawrocki is fighting — even physically — to keep the PiS-aligned judges in charge.

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