# Police outside Poland's top court as Tusk and Nawrocki clash

- By: Vote Times Newsroom
- 2026-11-02T11:33:25.000Z
- Produced with artificial intelligence under human editorial supervision.

## Excerpt

The announced suspension of Tribunal president Bogdan Święczkowski has produced two rival accounts of who runs the court: restoring the rule of law, or a coup. On 30 October 2026 judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska said she had suspended Bogdan Święczkowski, president of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, and police surrounded the building. President Karol Nawrocki cut short a trip to Senegal; Prime Minister Donald Tusk defends the move, while the Tribunal's official account, Święczkowski and the opposition call it a coup. Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek has filed motions to lift the immunity of Święczkowski and his deputy; these are only requests, and no one has been found guilty of anything.

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