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Three Polish envoys resign over Constitutional Tribunal dispute
Three Polish diplomats have resigned over the situation at the Constitutional Tribunal, while the National Security Council (RBN) prepares to meet on 3 November with the Tribunal dispute expected on its agenda.
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Jakub Kumoch (China), Paweł Soloch (Romania) and Krzysztof Szczerski (UN) have resigned in connection with the situation at the Constitutional Tribunal.
Radosław Sikorski and Włodzimierz Czarzasty urged President Karol Nawrocki not to invite Grzegorz Braun's party to the RBN meeting on 3 November, but a Confederation of the Polish Crown representative was invited.
Two-thirds of 15 judges means 10 must attend, but according to an interpretation heard from the ruling coalition, there are 12 judges in practice, which would set the quorum at eight.
Jakub Kumoch, Poland's ambassador to China, Paweł Soloch, ambassador to Romania, and Krzysztof Szczerski, Poland's permanent representative to the UN, have resigned in connection with the situation at the Constitutional Tribunal (TK). Kumoch and Szczerski were ministers in President Andrzej Duda's chancellery, and Soloch headed the BBN under Duda. According to the article, the dispute dates back to 2015 and the final months of the KO-PSL coalition government.
Before the RBN meeting on 3 November, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski and Sejm Marshal Włodzimierz Czarzasty urged President Karol Nawrocki not to invite representatives of Grzegorz Braun's party, fearing confidential information could reach people the party is accused of being pro-Russian. A representative of the Confederation of the Polish Crown was invited anyway. Presidential spokesman Rafał Leśkiewicz announced the council, which is to discuss among other things a permanent US base in Poland. The president interrupted a trip to Senegal and returned to Poland in the night of 30 to 31 October, then entered the Tribunal and held consultations with parliamentary forces. The Tribunal question is expected to come up at the council, and if Donald Tusk attends, it could be the first face-to-face meeting of the president and prime minister since the dispute escalated.
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- RzeczpospolitaWhat will happen at the General Assembly of TK Judges? Live coverageCo wydarzy się na Zgromadzeniu Ogólnym Sędziów TK? Relacja na żywo · original in Polish
- RzeczpospolitaWhat will happen at the General Assembly of TK Judges? Live coverageCo wydarzy się na Zgromadzeniu Ogólnym Sędziów TK? Relacja na żywo · original in Polish
- Karol Nawrocki
- President of Poland who returned from Senegal and invited a representative of the Confederation of the Polish Crown to the RBN
- Radosław Sikorski
- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who urged the president not to invite Braun's party to the RBN
- Włodzimierz Czarzasty
- Sejm Marshal who urged the president not to invite Braun's party to the RBN
- Donald Tusk
- Prime minister whose possible attendance at the RBN could bring a first face-to-face meeting with the president since the dispute escalated
- Grzegorz Braun
- Leader of the party whose representatives were urged to be kept from the RBN meeting
- Andrzej Duda
- Former president whose chancellery ministers Kumoch and Szczerski were
- Places
- Poland, United States
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