Posted on 07/02/2025 5:55:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Prime Minister Donald Tusk does not back down. On June 1 his candidate for president Rafal Trzaskowski lost the vote to the Conservative Karol Nawrocki. Nobody doubted Nawrocki’s victory. Even the observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said the election was “competitive and well-managed”.
Nawrocki won, Trzaskowski lost. But Tusk is now trying to block Nawrocki taking office. He won’t back down. Tusk is pitching accusations of electoral fraud – no evidence, just accusations — at Nawrocki. The fight is getting dirty.
Even during the election, Tusk was trying to sink Nawrocki, going as far as defamation and media manipulation. Perhaps sensing the left-liberal candidate was going to lose anyway, Tusk’s ruling coalition tried to pre-rig the post-election legal process. They tried to force through an ad hoc legislative change to alter the composition of the Supreme Court, which sounds shocking in itself. The goal was to transfer the adjudication of electoral disputes to judges who were loyal to the Tusk regime —judges appointed during the communist era and known for rulings against anti-communist dissidents.
In other words, Tusk was getting his political troops in order in case his candidate lost the election. Which he did.
Compounding this, investigative reporting revealed disturbing connections between foreign actors and the left-liberal candidate’s campaign during the campaign, suggesting illicit overseas financing disguised as “civic awareness” campaigns. Among the entities implicated were organisations linked to George Soros’s network and affiliates of former US President Barack Obama.
Why is Tusk risking such a dirty fight? The president of Poland holds far more than ceremonial duties. In Poland, the president holds veto power that can only be overridden by a three-fifth majority in parliament—a threshold Tusk’s coalition does not meet. The governing bloc had hoped that a compliant left-liberal president would retroactively legitimise the unlawful actions by the Tusk government of the past year—such as the illegal takeover of public media and the judiciary—and open the door to full-scale ideological restructuring of the Polish state along left-liberal lines. Nawrocki’s victory has upended these plans, making further governance by Tusk increasingly unviable.
In response, the ruling camp is now seeking to block Karol Nawrocki from assuming office. They launched a coordinated disinformation campaign alleging electoral fraud—ironically, allegedly committed by the very opposition under politically motivated prosecution—based on manipulated statistical analysis and minor, routine counting errors. These errors, which occur in every democratic election, were isolated to a few polling stations (out of over 30,000) and benefitted both candidates.
The Attorney General—acting through a prosecution service seized in violation of legal norms—even attempted to interfere physically with the operations of the Supreme Court. Citing ongoing investigations as a pretext, prosecutors sought to seize documents and suspend the court’s work. This was widely viewed as an effort to block the court from certifying the election results on time and thereby prevent Nawrocki from taking office. Such a manoeuvre would have amounted to a constitutional coup d’état. According to credible reports, a deputy prosecutor general refused to carry out the order.
Additionally, media reports indicated that far-left militant groups had planned to storm the Supreme Court building during mass protests to disrupt proceedings. The plan collapsed when ten times as many conservative demonstrators arrived on site, making it impossible for state-controlled security services to execute the provocation without triggering massive public backlash.
With those efforts thwarted, the government has shifted to attacking the legitimacy of the Supreme Court chamber responsible for validating the election. Their arguments about the chamber’s alleged unconstitutionality are purely rhetorical and politically driven.
The Constitutional Tribunal confirmed the chamber’s legality years ago, and no European court has ever questioned the legal status of the chamber. Nor could they: any such attempt would be ultra vires for two key reasons. First, the European Union has no competence to assess the constitutional organs of member states. Second, electoral matters resolved by the Supreme Court are not matters falling within the scope of the administration of justice—and only such matters, and only insofar as they fall within the scope of European law, fall under the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
According to the Polish Constitution, the president assumes office upon taking the oath before the National Assembly (composed of both the Sejm and the Senate), which must be convened by the Speaker of the Sejm. The next step, therefore, will likely involve mounting pressure on the Speaker—who is a member of a party within the ruling coalition—not to convene the Assembly, under the pretext of questioning the legality of the Supreme Court chamber that certified the election. However, the Speaker has declared that he will convene the Assembly, fully aware that failure to do so would constitute a constitutional delict and a serious offense against the state.
July 2025 will reveal how strong a hand Tusk still holds—and whether he will succeed in preventing Karol Nawrocki from taking office. Yet public sentiment, the shifting political dynamic, and the unravelling of the lawless regime all suggest that Poland will defend the democratic choice of its citizens and begin its march toward the restoration of the rule of law.
The left is fighting a citizens revolt in several European countries. The left seems to be underhanded everywhere.
Joseph Stalin
Nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled, and only then is it settled.
There's your bottom line. It's high time conservatives in the US learned that leftists don't care how they win, but are so desperate to gain power they'll do anything, no matter how horrid.
Sounds like a job for jimmuh cahtah.
You just gotta love those “European Values.”
Seems like I've heard that line of BS before.
BTW, Tusk in the one who in reference to NATO said, "We have 500 million Europeans expecting 330 million Americans to save us from 160 million Russians."
Tusk is a traitor who is destroying Poland.
I'm sorry to hear of Tusk's passing.
Get the US out of NATO, before the globalist/neo-marxist empire-builders in Brussels drag us into a disastrous war.
I think this is more of a disinformation campaign to weaken Nawrocki's clout after taking office.
I'm in Poland now and watching the parties bicker like this and try stupid maneuvers like invalidating the election makes me think Poland needs another Pilsudski.
I’m in Poland now and watching the parties bicker like this and try stupid maneuvers like invalidating the election makes me think Poland needs another Pilsudski.
Tak Jest!
I’ve been following what’s been going on the German border, it’s enough to make your blood boil.
I sure hope Poland can get rid of Tusk. More needs to be done but this would be a good start.
nuff said
Unfortunately PiS is better, but not by much.
The news this morning is that the Polish government is talking about re-instituting border controls with Germany.
The fact that the German police are taking migrants across the border and dumping them in Poland is outrageous.
Unfortunately there's a lot of credible evidence of large scale corruption involving both parties.
During their last term in Poland, KO connived with the central bank to lower interest rates to assist them in an upcoming election.
There's plenty of evidence of corruption involving PiS, including the sale of visas and diverting no-bid Ukraine aid contracts to political insiders who overcharged the Polish government by huge amounts.
PiS, however, hasn't tried arresting members of the opposition on spurious charges like KO has done.
Poland's six month presidency of the EU just ended and Tusk seems to have accomplished zilch besides undoubtedly lining up nice, fat, EU sinecures for KO party members.
There seems to be a similar pattern as in the US: both parties chest beat over cultural issues to garner support for an election but when elected do little to address them while making sure to line their own pockets. The Uniparty is a worldwide phenomenon.
The all encompassing nanny state just provides too many ways for existing elites to buy policies that maintain the status quo, no matter how ruinous.
Why I support Konfederacja.
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