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Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal remains at the center of an ongoing institutional and political crisis, with EL PAÍS reporting that the government and ultra-right parties are competing for influence over a court whose politicization is being questioned.

Handelsblatt reports that Constitutional Tribunal judges plan to meet, officially to discuss the court’s 2027 budget. The meeting is taking place amid a broader power struggle between the Polish government and the president, although the supplied reporting does not establish the session’s legal status or outcome.

The latest developments follow tumult or physical confrontations at or around the tribunal over the preceding weekend. Tagesschau also reports that the court’s president and deputy president were suspended before these developments, and that the Polish president cut short a foreign trip during the crisis. The supplied material does not identify the president or give details of the suspensions.

EL PAÍS describes the dispute as a contest between Donald Tusk’s liberal-centrist government and ultra-right parties over influence at the tribunal. Tagesschau reports that a compromise was not in sight, while EL PAÍS also reports accusations of a coup as part of the political dispute; the supplied sources do not establish that a coup occurred.

SOURCES

  1. TagesschauPolen: Die Verfassungsgerichtskrise - kein Ende in Sicht
  2. EL PAÍSLas claves de la crisis del Tribunal Constitucional en Polonia: forcejeos, acusaciones de golpe de Estado y guerra política
  3. HandelsblattStreit um Justiz: Nach Chaos – Polens Verfassungsrichter wollen tagen