2026 Polish Constitutional Tribunal crisis

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The Polish constitutional crisis, which originally began in 2015, has continued into 2026 between Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European Union government and the right-wing, nationalist party Law and Justice (PiS) over control of the judiciary. In 2026, the Sejm elected eight judges to the Constitutional Tribunal (six in March, one in June, and one in September). President of Poland Karol Nawrocki invited three of the judges to swearing-in ceremonies at the Presidential Palace and refused to swear in the other five. On 13 October, the Venice Commission stated that all eight judges were full members of the tribunal. On 16 October, the eight new judges made a public statement asserting that Article 194 of the Polish Constitution gives no power to the Polish president in selecting members of the tribunal. By late October, the president of the tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, had not recognised the five judges as members of the tribunal, and filed a disciplinary case against the other three...

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