Tusk defends decisive action as necessary to restore the rule of law

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Tusk defends Poland's tribunal intervention; Ziobro calls it an attack on the state

In an order dated October 30, 2026, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, saying she stands in for the president of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal as its judge with the longest service, ordered an immediate one-month interruption of Bogdan Święczkowski's duties as a judge, including his performance of the president's duties. The order says a disciplinary court must then either suspend him or revoke the interruption. It does not claim to remove him from office. It lists Korwin-Piotrowska among five people the Sejm elected to the tribunal in 2026 whom, it says, Święczkowski has not allowed to hear cases, and alleges that he blocked the tribunal's 2027 budget proposal. Święczkowski calls the action unlawful. The tribunal's X account says he remains president and that Korwin-Piotrowska is not a tribunal judge. PAP reports that neither President Karol Nawrocki nor Święczkowski recognizes the oaths the five took in the Sejm. Police secured the tribunal grounds as protesters gathered. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said restoring the rule of law requires decisive action. Former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro called the events an attack on the state and blamed Tusk. The competing accounts concern who may direct the tribunal, whether the five are its judges and whether the intervention is lawful.