Poland’s political rift deepens as ‘coup’ allegations fly

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The Polish nationalist opposition has strengthened its conflict led by the EU by the EU, both sides accuse each other the results of the upcoming presidential election.

The Senior Politics of the Ultrasharian Law and Justice of Justice (PIS) have accused the government of planning the government, and the major constitutional tribunal of PIS causes an alleged coup with Tusk and its ministers.

Meanwhile, TUSK officials warned that the judges appointed by PIS could cancel the election results if their preferred candidate wins May vote.

The mayor of Warsaw and the leader of the TUSK Civil Platform party Rafa Trasksky, Frrontrunner. But the recent opinion showed that PIS candidate Carol Navarok could be narrowly beaten.

Last week, Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorski warned Polish judges who potential to increase the Romanian Constitutional Court. In December, the Bucharest Court had canceled presidential elections in the face of a well-contradictory candidate who unexpectedly leads the first round of voting.

“We have a Romanian problem even more than some people think,” said Sikorski broadcasting, warning that the country was “ready” such a situation.

Earlier this month, the President of the Polish Constitutional Court Bogddan ś Baghkovsky announced the investigation of Kusk and his counterparts to make a coup and working “organized crime group”. The best judge, who was an eldest prosecutor when PI was power did not provide evidence for his demands.

Tusk said the probe was “vulgar” and “dangerous.” The Minister of Justice stopped the prosecutor, appointed by święczkowski to study the supposed plot.

In December, PIS said by Polish President Andrze Duda said that voters could go out to the streets against the results of the elections.

“It is possible that there can only be elections in individual countries in individual countries, only those who are admitted in Brussels. I have this impression and I don’t like it very much, “Duda said to online media Kanał Zero.

Recently, the Trump administration has been made by PIS, after US Vice President JD Vance criticized Europe, as if they cancel the elections.

“You don’t have common values ​​if you cancel the election because you don’t like the result, and it happened in Romania. You don’t have common values ​​if you are so afraid of your own people, which you are silent to them, “said Vans Thursday.

In May, winning the Polish presidential elections is the key to opening the agenda of the coalry reform, including the renovation of the judiciary, which promised not to resolve Brussels. But after serving in 2023, his efforts were stopped by the PI with the help of judges appointed by Duda and PI.

PIS also accused TUSK Government to keep the party’s financing of the party in the Copper of the Scupper Nawrocki. The Polish Electoral Commission, which has a narrow majority in line with TUSK coalition, after finding irregularity in the expenses of the campaign, part of the State Funding of the JCO.

During the voting, the Tusk government warned that Poland is the European country more purposefully Russian misinformation and cyber attacks.

The real problem is that the law is a politically tool, according to Dorotta Pionytek, Dorotta Pionatek, according to Poznich’s Adam Mokekic University. “We are currently in a state of complete chaos, which does not rise well,” he said.