The President of the Polish Constitutional Court Bogdan Šwienczkowski filed a criminal complaint against Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday, members of the government, Senate Prime Ministers and the Senate, deputies of the government coalition and some judges and prosecutors. He described them as an organized criminal group that allegedly attempted a coup d’état, TASR reports according to PAP.
Šwienczkowski handed over a 60-page announcement to the representative of the Attorney General Michal Ostrowski, who started the investigation. He appealed to Articles 127 and 128 of the Polish Criminal Code, which impose punishments for violent changes in the country’s constitutional order from ten years in prison to life imprisonment.
Spying system Pegasus on the pretras
According to Šwienczkowski, since December 2023, the government has been trying to limit the activities of the Constitutional Court, the State Judicial Council and the Supreme Court. He claims that these steps include violence and illegal threats. At a press conference he said he tried to establish a dialogue with government officials, but without the result, which forced him to act legally.
On Monday (January 3, January 3), Šwienczkowski refused to come to the parliamentary committee investigating the possible use of the Pegasus spy system by a former government against its critics. The Constitutional Court considers the Commission to be illegitimate.
The leader of the opposition party Law and Justice (PIS) Jaroslaw Kaczynski described the criminal complaint of Šwienczkowski as a reasonable response to the state of the country. He criticized the government for alleged violations of laws and interference with the election processes, including the failure to decide the State Election Commission on PIS’s financial statements for 2023.
Government criticism of the court
Prime Minister Donald Tusk responded to allegations with humor. “Give peace, we have serious things here. Later we will deal with this, “he said in the video on the social network, where he was asked about the coup d’état during the Ping-Pong game.
President Andrzej Duda said in an interview with Kanal Zero that the country is facing a series of repeated and persistent violations of the law by executive members. Duda stated that violations concern in particular Article 7 of the Constitution, according to which public authorities act on the basis of and in the limits of the law.
In its current form, the Constitutional Court faces criticism from government officials and part of the legal community. On March 6, last year, the Lower Chamber of Parliament (SEJM) adopted a resolution on the elimination of the consequences of the constitutional crisis of 2015-2023. According to the court’s decision, the court adopted in violation of the law may be considered a violation of the principle of legality. Since the adoption of this resolution, the court decisions have not been published in the Collection of Laws.
