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Making the courts dependent on the ruling party enables Jaroslaw Kaczynski's PiS to ignore unfavourable rulings from domestic judges or the CJEU.
Poles rally against ‘Polexit’ as prospect of pandemic recovery funds fade
bne IntelliNews
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Warsaw and across Poland on October 10 in rallies against the government, which they said wants to push Poland out
of the EU.
The rallies were the result of a ruling by the government-controlled Constitutional Tribunal on October 7 that said some articles of the Treaty of the European Union – the bloc’s fundamental law – contravene the Polish Constitution.
The ruling once again led the raising of the spectre of ‘Polexit’, or Poland leaving the European Union, which it joined in 2004.
"I call on all those who want to defend European Poland to the Castle Square in Warsaw, on Sunday, 6pm. Only together can we stop them,” Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council and onetime Polish PM, tweeted on the day of the Tribunal’s ruling.
Poles listened and flocked to Warsaw’s historic centre in thousands. Huge crowds also turned out in over 100 locations countrywide.
“The pseudo-tribunal by order of the president of the ruling party and in
political will of Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), and the party’s chairman, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
A group of pro-government nationalists staged a concurrent rally, trying to drown out speeches by Tusk and other
“The pseudo-tribunal by order of the president of the ruling party and in violation of the constitution decided to lead our homeland
out of the European Union"
violation of the constitution decided to lead our homeland out of the European Union,” Tusk told the crowd in Warsaw.
Tusk thus referred to the government- engineered line-up of the tribunal, widely considered as servile to the
opposition figures, including the 94-year old Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, a veteran of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis in 1944.
“Be quiet, you dimwit. This is our Europe and no one will lead us out