Donald Tusk wrote on X on Monday that the solution was "simple": President Karol Nawrocki should recognise those judges, because the constitution says so, so that they can take up their duties at the court.
For now, he said, Nawrocki was choosing "forceful confrontation" that could "cost Poland dearly."
A democratic state governed by the rule of law could not give way to violence, he added, "no matter how powerful the outside forces" backing what he called the attack by Law and Justice (PiS), the Confederation party, far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun and Nawrocki.
He said it would not give way.
The standoff began on Friday, when the court’s president and his deputy were suspended and Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska took charge.
Nawrocki then cut short a trip to Senegal and went to the court.
The president’s spokesman, Rafał Leśkiewicz, said on Monday that any initiative must come from "the man who ruined all this," meaning Tusk, the government and parliament.
On Saturday, Nawrocki held talks with leaders of parties in parliament, and Tusk, in a televised address, ruled out compromise over the Tribunal.
The court’s general assembly of judges is expected to meet on Tuesday to approve its 2027 budget.
Korwin-Piotrowska has also said she will add to the agenda a random draw to choose the panels that would hear disciplinary cases against the suspended court president and his deputy.
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Source: PAP