Oct 14, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
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[news jingle] The row between Poland's government and president over the Constitutional Tribunal continues.
The standoff between Poland's government and the president over the Constitutional Tribunal shows no signs of easing after a new judge took his oath in parliament without President Karol Nawrocki present, with protesters gathering outside the court.
Maciej Berek, elected by the Sejm lower house in September, took the oath on Wednesday morning with the words before the president.
Sejm Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty and Senate Speaker Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska attended.
Berek is the fifth Tribunal judge to take the oath in parliament in this form.
Czarzasty said the Sejm's role was now over and that the time for the Tribunal to work normally and effectively was beginning.
He pointed to an opinion from the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body, published on Tuesday.
"Where the president refuses or delays carrying out the ceremony of swearing in a judge elected by the Sejm, thereby making it impossible to complete the ordinary swearing-in procedure, it must be possible to take the oath without the president's physical participation, provided that its essential elements are preserved.
These include taking the oath in the prescribed form, its due verification and submission, and sending it to the president and handing it over to him.
Outside the Tribunal, there were scuffles between police and protesters, among them nationalist activist Robert Bąkiewicz, leader of the Border Defense Movement, and, uh, politicians of the opposition Law and Justice Peace Party, including Antoni Macierewicz.
Police dismantled barriers set up by demonstrators who tried to block the entrance.
Polish military police and prosecutors are examining fragments of an unidentified flying object found on a beach in Karwia, on the country's Baltic Coast.
Authorities say chemical and radiological hazards, as well as explosives, have been ruled out.
[news jingle] The row between Poland's government and president over the Constitutional Tribunal continues.
The standoff between Poland's government and the president over the Constitutional Tribunal shows no signs of easing after a new judge took his oath in parliament without President Karol Nawrocki present, with protesters gathering outside the court.
Maciej Berek, elected by the Sejm lower house in September, took the oath on Wednesday morning with the words before the president.
Sejm Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty and Senate Speaker Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska attended.
Berek is the fifth Tribunal judge to take the oath in parliament in this form.
Czarzasty said the Sejm's role was now over and that the time for the Tribunal to work normally and effectively was beginning.
He pointed to an opinion from the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body, published on Tuesday.
"Where the president refuses or delays carrying out the ceremony of swearing in a judge elected by the Sejm, thereby making it impossible to complete the ordinary swearing-in procedure, it must be possible to take the oath without the president's physical participation, provided that its essential elements are preserved.
These include taking the oath in the prescribed form, its due verification and submission, and sending it to the president and handing it over to him.
Outside the Tribunal, there were scuffles between police and protesters, among them nationalist activist Robert Bąkiewicz, leader of the Border Defense Movement, and, uh, politicians of the opposition Law and Justice Peace Party, including Antoni Macierewicz.
Police dismantled barriers set up by demonstrators who tried to block the entrance.
Polish military police and prosecutors are examining fragments of an unidentified flying object found on a beach in Karwia, on the country's Baltic Coast.
Authorities say chemical and radiological hazards, as well as explosives, have been ruled out.
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