In a dramatic escalation of Poland’s battle to restore rule of law, the police entered the country’s presidential palace on Tuesday evening and took two MPs into custody who had been hiding under the protection of President Andrzej Duda after being sentenced to prison terms for abuse of power.
The arrests cut to the heart of a fight between Duda and new Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who is seeking to unravel eight years of rule by the nationalist, conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), rooting the previous administration’s loyalists out of key institutions like the media, courts and state-owned corporations.
Guess the PiS party is over. Now do Hungary…then the US
Now PiS is PiSs.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a dramatic escalation of Poland’s battle to restore rule of law, the police entered the country’s presidential palace on Tuesday evening and took two MPs into custody who had been hiding under the protection of President Andrzej Duda after being sentenced to prison terms for abuse of power.
The arrests cut to the heart of a fight between Duda and new Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who is seeking to unravel eight years of rule by the nationalist, conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), rooting the previous administration’s loyalists out of key institutions like the media, courts and state-owned corporations.
The case of two convicted PiS lawmakers — Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik — enjoying presidential protection rapidly turned into a defining battle of wills between the two camps, until the cops finally swooped.
Earlier on Tuesday, Szymon Hołownia, speaker of parliament, called the situation around the fugitive MPs a “deep constitutional crisis,” while Tusk recited the criminal code penalties for hiding people wanted by the police.
“Maybe it’s even a good thing that this whole crisis happened, because everyone can see what kind of mess PiS, unfortunately, hand-in-hand with President Duda, has led to by ‘reforming’ the Polish justice system,” Hołownia said.
“A lot depends on the determination of the new government and how far it will go run restoring Poland to the rule of law,” said Jakub Jaraczewski, a researcher at Democracy Reporting International, an NGO.
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Hmm the PiSs party is over, that’s good.
Perfectly normal country
Someone took a PiSsDonald Tusk?..
And Duda? I know only one pole with surname Duda: Jarek Duda. He is great mathematician.
