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The Polish nationalist opposition has intensified its conflict with the Government for the EU led by Donald Tusk, with both parties accusing each other for the attempt to distort the results of the upcoming presidential elections.
The leading politicians in the UltraConSVATIVE Law and Justice (PIS) party accused the government of planning to interfere with the plant, while the Constitutional Court with the control of the PIS launched a probe in Tusk and its ministers over the alleged land.
Meanwhile, TUSK officials warned that the judges appointed PiS could cancel the outcome of the elections if their preferred candidate did not win the May vote.
Warsaw mayor and presidential candidate for the TUSK civic platform, Rafał trzaskowski, is a pioneer. However, one recent public opinion survey showed that PiS Karol Nawrocki candidate could just win drain.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski warned a potentially imitating Constitutional Court of Romania against Polish judges last week. In December, the Court of Justice in Bucharest abolished the presidential election due to alleged Russian interference in favor of the far right candidate who unexpectedly achieved the first round of the vote.
“We have a Romanian problem even more than some people think,” said Sikorski transmitters Polsat and warned that the country is not “ready” for such a situation.
The Polish Constitutional Court President Bogdan Święczkowski announced at the beginning of this month to investigate Tusk and his partners for alleged preparation of the coup and the operation of the “group of organized crime”. The supreme judge, who was the head of the prosecutor when he was in power, did not provide any evidence of his claims.
Tusk said the probe is “grotesque” and “dangerous”. The Minister of Justice suspended the prosecutor of the named Święczkowski to explore the alleged conspiracy.
Polish President Andrzej Duda, nominated for PiS, who named Święczkowski in December, said voters might have to take the streets to prove against “manipulated” elections.
“Is it possible that only those who are accepted in Brussels can win the elections in individual countries – seemingly democratic – to win? I have this impression and I don't like it very much, ”Duda told Kanał Zero online media.
PIS was recently encouraged by Trump's administration, after the US Vice President JD criticized Europe for allegedly forbidding the votes of truewing and went “as far” as the abolition of the elections.
'' You do not have shared values if you cancel the options because you do not like the result, and it happened in Romania. You do not have shared values if you are so afraid of your own people that you will silence them, ”Vance said on Thursday.
Obtaining the Polish presidential elections in May is the key to unlocking the reform agenda of its coalition, including the reworking of the judiciary, which promised Brussels to release the EU funds. But since joining office in 2023, his efforts were stopped by PI with the help of judges named Duda and PIS.
PiS also accused the government of the Tusks of illegally detained parties for the Scupper Nawrocki campaign. The Polish Election Commission – which has a narrow majority of members in accordance with Tusk's coalition – detained part of the state financing PiS after finding inconsistencies in previous campaigns.
When participating in the vote, the government of Tuska warned that Poland is the European country to which it is most targeting Russian misinformation and cyber attacks.
The real problem is that the law is politically instrumentalized, according to Dorota Piontek, a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. '' We are currently in a state of complete chaos that is not good, “she said.
