Konfederacja takes Tribunal reset plan to Nawrocki, warns of Sejm term cut

A reset proposal for the tribunal

Konfederacja leaders Sławomir Mentzen and Krzysztof Bosak presented their proposal for a reset of the Constitutional Tribunal (TK) to President Karol Nawrocki on Saturday, 31 October 2026. Talks at the Presidential Palace began at 13:00 that day, and the President had already held meetings with PiS, PSL, Polska 2050 and Razem. According to the Konfederacja leaders, the proposal met with the President's approval. Mentzen described the plan as a compromise that would require every side in the dispute to step back and put the interests of Poland ahead of party interests. He said he hoped the President would rise above the dispute between PiS and KO, and promised to present the details of the plan after meeting him.

Two options, as Mentzen frames them

Mentzen argued that the dispute over the tribunal has run for a decade and is now escalating. He put the choice in blunt terms:

“We have only two options: continuing this dispute for another ten years, or a constitutional reset.”

Bosak added that if the conflict keeps escalating, Konfederacja will submit a draft resolution to shorten the current term of the Sejm, and that the party will also put the idea to the President. Bosak, who serves as deputy Speaker of the Sejm, accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government of acting beyond constitutional limits and misusing the police and other uniformed services.

Bosak's speech outside the tribunal

On 30 October Bosak spoke at a rally in front of the Constitutional Tribunal and called for early elections. He told the governing camp that it had won the parliamentary election but not the presidential one.

“You managed to win the parliamentary elections, but you did not manage to win the presidential elections.”

In the same speech Bosak accused Tusk and his team, which he said included the justice minister and police commanders, of paralysing an institution that he said the government had already ignored. He claimed the current government had published none of the tribunal's rulings, while the previous one had left out only individual rulings. He said the authorities were using police and services to extend their power and had done the same at TVP and the Polish Press Agency (PAP). He told the government it could occupy the building and bring in a further 100,000 officers, but he insisted that the institution is something else.

“The Constitutional Tribunal and every other institution in the state is not a building, but the people who hold specific functions.”

Police at the tribunal

Police were also on the tribunal's grounds on 30 October. Warsaw police (KSP) said officers arrived between 17:00 and 18:00 acting on information from Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska about possible threats to the life or health of the tribunal's judges and staff and a risk of public disorder. A notice on the tribunal's website around 18:00 reported a break in the duties of its president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and of Sochański. Police later reported incidents at the protest outside and said they had detained three people who had jumped the fence onto the grounds.

What comes next

Mentzen has not yet published the details of the reset plan, which he said would follow his meeting with the President. Bosak's motion to shorten the Sejm term has not been filed, and he tied it to further escalation of the dispute. The Palace talks were part of the President's round of meetings with parliamentary groups on the tribunal, which began on Saturday.