Poland, Duda-Tusk institutional clash: the country still on the brink of crisis

Poland, clash at the institutional top: President Duda gives refuge to the former Interior Minister and his deputy

The former Polish Interior Minister has been arrested Mariusz Kamiński and his former deputy Maciej Wąsik who, after being convicted of abuse of power, had taken refuge in the president's palace Andrzej Duda heightening the tension between the new government, led by Donald Tusk and the previous one. He brings it back “The print”.

The two wanted men were sheltered in presidential palace from Tuesday morning at the invitation of the president.

“This is an unprecedented situation,” he commented Tusk – in which the convicts who must be taken by the police to a place of isolation choose another place of isolation, probably more comfortable (…) the presidential palace”.

The police of Warsaw stated that thearrest it happened “in accordance with the court order“. Duda, linked to the outgoing conservative party “Law and Justice”, has made it clear that he will oppose the agenda of Tusk. The second e last term of Duda will last until mid-2025.

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Kamiński one started hunger strike, as he stated in a statement. “I declare that I consider my sentence… as an act of political revenge. As a political prisoner, I began a hunger strike from the first day of detention.”

Police entered Poland's presidential palace to detain two of their former bosses on Tuesday, carrying out a court order take the former Interior Minister to prison And his deputy and escalating a dispute between the head of state and the new government.

After seizing power in October, the Prime Minister Donald Tuskhas vowed to undo the policies of his predecessors, the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, which faced accusations of subversion of democracy during his eight years in government.

On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the presidential palace at the behest of the Pis party, of which Kaminski and Wasik belong, and in front of a police station where the two were held.

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