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Polish nationalist opposition parties amplified the collision with the pro -EU government, led by Donald Tusk, and both sides accused the two attempted to distort the outcomes of the upcoming presidential election.
The high -ranking politicians of the Ultraconservative Law and Justice (PIS) political parties have accused the government’s plan to hinder race, and the Constitutional Court of PIS has been investigating TUSK and his ministers about a coup conspiracy.
TUSK officials warned that the candidates preferred by the judges appointed by the PIS could invalidate the election results if they did not win in the May vote.
TUSK’s Citizen Platform Party, Rafał Trzaskowski Mayor Warsaw and Presidential candidate, is the leader. However, according to a recent poll, PIS candidate Karol Nawrocki can be leaked narrowly.
Radosław Sikorski Foreign Minister warned the Polish judge who imitated the Romanian Constitutional Court last week. In December, the court of Bukkurestee canceled the presidential election on charges of Russia, who was unexpectedly voting.
Sikorski told broadcaster Polsat, “We are experiencing more Romania problems than some people think.”
The Polish Constitutional Court, Bogdan święczkowski, prepared a coup at the beginning of this month and published a survey of TUSK and his partner who operated the “organized crime group.” When PIS took power, the chief judge, who was a senior prosecutor, did not provide evidence of his claim.
TUSK said Prove was “grotesque” and “dangerous.” The Minister of Justice suspended the prosecution appointed by święczkowski to investigate suspected conspiracy.
Andrzej Duda, chairman of PIS, who appointed święczkowski in December, said voters may have to go to the distance to oppose the elections of elections.
“Can only those who are accepted in Brussels, which seem to be democratic today? DUDA told the online media Kanał Zero.
PIS recently became bold by the Trump administration after criticizing the US Vice President JD Vance as “far away” by cracking down on the right voice and canceling elections.
If you cancel the election in Romania without liking the results, it is not shared. If you’re too afraid of your people, it’s not worth sharing. ”Vance said on Thursday.
The championship in Poland’s presidential election in May is to unlock the Union’s reform agenda, including the inspection of the judiciary that Brussels promised to solve the state’s EU funds. But since he was inaugurated in 2023, his efforts were suspended by PIS with the help of DUDA and PIS Impa.
The PIS also illegally criticized the TUSK government’s funds for the withholding party. The majority of members, which coincide with TUSK’s union, have suspended some of the PIS state funds after finding irregularity in past campaign spending.
TUSK’s government warned that Poland was the most targeted European country with Russian information and cyber attacks.
According to Dorota Piontek, a professor of political politicians at the Adam MickeyWicz University in Poznań, the actual problem is that the law is being politically tooled. “ We are currently in a state of complete confusion and do not work well. “
