Heat before the Constitutional Tribunal. "This is Poland"

On Saturday afternoon, due to the situation around the Constitutional Tribunal in front of the seat of the Constitutional Tribunal in Al. Szucha, demonstrators gathered in Warsaw. They have with them, among others: white and red flags, chanting, among others: "this is Poland"; the demonstration began with the singing of the national anthem.

A call to a demonstration

The organizers of the protest in front of the Constitutional Tribunal's headquarters have been calling on Poles to participate in Saturday's demonstration for several days. On Friday, Kaczyński encouraged this.

The demonstrators have been staying in front of the Constitutional Tribunal's headquarters for several weeks. The situation escalated for the last time on Wednesday. On that day, Maciej Berek, who at the beginning of September was elected by the Sejm as the new judge of the Constitutional Tribunal - the eighth in this term of the Sejm - took his oath to the Sejm with the formula that he did so "in front of the president". He then forwarded notarially certified documents in this matter to the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland.

Berek's term as a Constitutional Tribunal judge should have started in mid-September. However, President Karol Nawrocki did not invite him to the Presidential Palace to take the oath. Berek sent letters to the president on this matter, but - according to him - they remained unanswered.

Maciej Berek entered the Tribunal

On Wednesday, after submitting the documents to the KPRP, Berek - together with other judges elected by the Sejm this term - went to the seat of the Tribunal. They entered there thanks to police intervention, because the protesters gathered in front of the Constitutional Tribunal tried, among other things, block the entrance to the Tribunal.

There were also scuffles between the crowd and the police. The President of the Tribunal, who addressed the demonstrators, asked them to "not escalate, to lower their emotions."

On Thursday evening, Maciej Berek assessed that "personal responsibility" for Wednesday's situation in front of the Constitutional Tribunal seat rests - as he said - "Judge Święczkowski". "Using" (...) human emotions for this type of behavior is absolutely scandalous and discrediting in every dimension, Berek said. In turn, the head of government assessed that the responsibility for the "increase in aggression" falls on President Karol Nawrocki and the president of PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński.