Bogdan Święczkowski, an opposition ally, accuses Donald Tusk and others of acting as an “organised criminal group”.

Bogdan Święczkowski, an opposition ally, accuses Donald Tusk and others of acting as an “organised criminal group”.
Bogdan Święczkowski served as a senior prosecutor under the former PiS government and is seen as a close ally of then justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro.
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However, the current government does not recognise the legitimacy of many TK judges, including some of those who issued yesterday’s ruling.
Few had expected the president, an ally of the former ruling PiS party, to sign the bills.
Most judges on today’s panel are former politicians from the ex-PM’s party.
The measures aim to “restore the independence of the Constitutional Tribunal”.
The government responded by declaring the court’s ruling to have “no legal significance”.
Central bank governor Adam Glapiński is seen as an ally of the former ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party.
A member of Poland’s incoming ruling coalition called the ruling “the final chord in PiS’s war against the EU”.
Questions still remain over how the tribunal will function given its internal disputes.