Problems in Poland: Tusk accuses Duda of sabotage

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“Mr President, my fervent appeal for the well-being of the Polish state: you must stop this spectacle. It will put us in a very dangerous situation,” Tusk said in Warsaw on Tuesday. He warned that Duda and PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski would be held responsible for sabotaging the constitution and breaking the law.

The president, who comes from the ranks of the PiS, received former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski and his State Secretary Maciej Wasik at the presidential palace in the morning while police were taking them to prison. Both politicians were sentenced to two years in prison for abuse of office by a district court in Warsaw in December after an appeal and were due to begin their sentences. Duda granted the two pardons after an initial trial in 2015. However, the Supreme Court declared this pardon unlawful, because the professional proceedings were still ongoing at that time. Duda had emphasized several times that in his opinion the pardon remained applicable.

In the afternoon, Kaminski and Wasik appeared before the press in the courtyard of the presidential palace. Police searched the homes in the morning but found neither him nor Wasik, Kaminski said. ‘We don’t hide. Right now we stand with the Polish president until evil loses.” He did not specify how long he and Wasik planned to stay at the presidential palace.

(SDA)

Source: Blick