## The crisis of the Constitutional Court in Poland deepens The conflict escalated at the beginning of the fall after the Polish Parliament elected Sage Barak - a supporter of the ruling coalition and a minister without a portfolio - as a judge of the Constitutional Court. The decision caused tensions even within the ruling coalition itself. Tusk called Barak a "talented, brave and selfless" man and the best candidate to put order in the work of the courts. The new judge was supposed to take office in mid-September, but President Navroki refused to swear him in - along with two other candidates for the Supreme Court - while the chairman of the court, Bogdan Svichkovsky, forbade them to work. Berks' letters to the president, he says, remained unanswered - so he swore in parliament, stating that he did so "in the presence of the president", and sent notarized documents to Chancellor Norukis. Since then, protesters have been regularly gathering outside the court. On October 30, the government-backed judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska announced the temporary suspension of President Szwieczkowski and his deputy Bartlomiej Suchenski — both opponents of court reform — who declared herself the longest-serving head of the court. Schweichkovsky and Sochansky rejected her claims; Suchensky called the move a "coup". ".

## The crisis of the Constitutional Court in Poland deepens The conflict escalated at the beginning of the fall after the Polish Parliament elected Sage Barak - a supporter of the ruling coalition and a minister without a portfolio - as a judge of the Constitutional Court. The decision caused tensions even within the ruling coalition itself. Tusk called Barak a "talented, brave and selfless" man and the best candidate to put order in the work of the courts. The new judge was supposed to take office in mid-September, but President Navroki refused to swear him in - along with two other candidates for the Supreme Court - while the chairman of the court, Bogdan Svichkovsky, forbade them to work. Berks' letters to the president, he says, remained unanswered - so he swore in parliament, stating that he did so "in the presence of the president", and sent notarized documents to Chancellor Norukis. Since then, protesters have been regularly gathering outside the court. On October 30, the government-backed judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska announced the temporary suspension of President Szwieczkowski and his deputy Bartlomiej Suchenski — both opponents of court reform — who declared herself the longest-serving head of the court. Schweichkovsky and Sochansky rejected her claims; Suchensky called the move a "coup". ".