Tusk’s coalition partners join Nawrocki as Poland tribunal crisis drags on

Police have surrounded the Constitutional Tribunal building in Warsaw for a third day. President Karol Nawrocki convened urgent consultations with both the opposition and Tusk’s coalition partners, while his office held the prime minister “personally responsible.”

RuskiGazeta Editorial DeskNovember 01, 2026, 10:19 PMUpdated: November 02, 2026, 06:07 PM

Tusk’s coalition partners join Nawrocki as Poland tribunal crisis drags on

The standoff between Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Karol Nawrocki over the Constitutional Tribunal continues. On November 1, police were still surrounding the courthouse in Warsaw, while the president’s supporters gathered at the entrance with Polish flags.

Consultations at the palace

Nawrocki convened urgent cross-party consultations at the presidential palace. The meeting was attended not only by the opposition parties Law and Justice and Confederation, but also by parties in Tusk’s ruling coalition—the Polish People’s Party and Poland 2050—as well as the left-wing Razem party. According to the Kyiv Post, they reached a common position on the tribunal.

The president’s office said Tusk bore “personal responsibility” for the attack on the Constitutional Tribunal. Nawrocki himself called the developments “the forcible takeover of a constitutional body.”

Tusk: There will be no compromise

In a televised address, Tusk said the government had unsuccessfully offered the president a compromise and that the tribunal’s judges had been lawfully elected. “There can be no compromise on some issues,” the prime minister said. The crisis began on October 30, when the tribunal’s longest-serving judge, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, suspended the court’s president, Bogdan Swenczkowski, and his deputy for one month.

Tusk responds to the president

On November 2, the prime minister responded on social media to accusations made by the president’s office. “President Karol Nawrocki has chosen the path of forceful confrontation. A democratic state governed by the rule of law cannot and will not yield to violence,” Tusk wrote.

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