On the night from Friday to Saturday, President Nawrocki interrupted his flight to Senegal and arrived at the headquarters of the Constitutional Tribunal. The media published recordings showing his entry into the Constitutional Tribunal building and a dispute between the president's representatives and people elected by the current Sejm as judges of the Tribunal. The parties present different versions of events regarding the course of the incident.
On Sunday, in an interview with Radio Wnet, the president's spokesman said that during the events at the Constitutional Tribunal on the night from Friday to Saturday, the president's inviolability was violated.
In his opinion, the head of the Constitutional Tribunal, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, and Maciej Berek and Krystian Markiewicz, elected by the Sejm as judges of the Constitutional Tribunal, "had no right to touch the president." He announced that the Chancellery of the President "will take action to submit reports to the prosecutor's office" against these people.
The judges of the Constitutional Tribunal are not Mrs. Anna Korwin-Piotrowska or, for example, Mr. Krystian Markiewicz, who blocked the entrance door to the Constitutional Tribunal for the president and violated the bodily inviolability of the head of state, he emphasized.
As he said, Nawrocki had the right to enter the Constitutional Tribunal because "every citizen has the right to enter" the Constitutional Tribunal.
This is a public office that is established so that citizens can deal with their affairs there, and the president entered there to find out what the actual situation is like in the Constitutional Tribunal - argued the spokesman.
In turn, according to Anna Korwin-Piotrowska's account, the president allegedly tried to forcefully enter the building without stopping in front of a group of people elected by the current Sejm as judges of the Constitutional Tribunal.
With confidence and momentum, he tried to ram me from the front and the entire group of judges with whom we were standing together in front of the entrance to the Tribunal, Korwin-Piotrowska reported in an interview with TVN24. She emphasized that "the first attempt at ramming failed slightly," so the president allegedly began pushing her aside with his hands.
She added that the president entered the hall and started shouting that "we have no right to be here, we are not judges of the Constitutional Tribunal."
The president's spokesman added that the "pictures" from Friday to Saturday included: on social media are "dramatic".
This is a ready indictment against Prime Minister Donald Tusk and this is an indictment against Messrs. Markiewicz, Berek and Mrs. Korwin-Piotrowska - he said.
Leśkiewicz also referred to the words of Korwin-Piotrowska, who, commenting on the events around the Constitutional Tribunal on the night from Friday to Saturday, said that before entering the Tribunal, the president tried to ram her and other people elected by the Sejm as Constitutional Tribunal judges.
In this way, Mrs. Korwin-Piotrowska is trying to build a defense line. This is natural, because he will undoubtedly be held criminally liable for this behavior, just like Mr. Berek or Mr. Markiewicz, he said.
The crisis in the Constitutional Tribunal occurred after the suspension of the activities of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, and Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański, announced on Friday on the Constitutional Tribunal's website. Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, elected as a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal by the current Sejm, was announced as the person in charge of the work of the Tribunal.
After leaving the Constitutional Tribunal on Saturday morning, Nawrocki announced the calling of urgent consultations with the participation of parliamentary forces, arguing that the constitutional order had been violated. In turn, Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared that "restoring the rule of law is our duty."
On Saturday, talks were held at the Presidential Palace with some representatives of parliamentary clubs and groups.
In the evening, Prime Minister Donald Tusk delivered a speech, saying, among other things, that "the attack on the Constitutional Tribunal and its judges is another stage of the process of destroying the rule of law in Poland by PiS and presidents Andrzej Duda and Karol Nawrocki," and "the state must be strong and capable of enforcing justice."
