"Homeland in Need". Lech Wałęsa reacts to the events in the Constitutional Tribunal

On Friday evening, the police and the SOP appeared at the Constitutional Tribunal, and judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska announced the suspension of President Bogdan Święczkowski. President Karol Nawrocki interrupted his trip to Senegal and returned to the country. After midnight, he entered the premises of the Constitutional Tribunal accompanied by the First President of the Supreme Court, Zbigniew Kapiński, and a scuffle broke out at the entrance. Before 5, President Nawrocki left the Constitutional Tribunal building, in front of which the meeting is still taking place. Some of the gathered people kneel and pray.

Maciej Taborowski, Magdalena Bentkowska and Maciej Berek informed that Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, as the longest-serving judge, became the head of the Constitutional Tribunal and issued orders on breaks in the official activities of Święczkowski and Sochański for a month.

Former president Lech Wałęsa published an entry on his social media in the morning: "Mr. Prime Minister Tusk, we have no choice. Our homeland is in need! I stand with you in the front row, regardless of the circumstances. I call on my friends from the solidarity fight to support our aspirations!" - wrote Wałęsa.

"Restoring the rule of law is our duty. After years of PiS lawlessness, it is a difficult, sometimes painful process and requires decisive action. There is no other way," Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on the X platform last evening.

President Karol Nawrocki issued a statement in which he called for the coercive forces sent there to immediately leave the premises of the Tribunal and called for urgent consultations with representatives of the parliamentary forces.

A statement was also issued by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski. He wrote: "The clash over the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland is about restoring the rule of law to an institution that has been politicized by a populist government that is losing power in the 2023 elections. Its president has repeatedly broken the law by referring politically sensitive cases to hand-selected judges. The Tribunal has failed to adopt its own budget."