Nawrocki Returns to Poland Amid Tribunal Leadership Dispute

Polish President Karol Nawrocki turned his plane back to Poland while en route to Senegal as a dispute over control of the Constitutional Tribunal escalated, with police at the court in Warsaw and conflicting claims over its leadership. Nawrocki said on X that he was interrupting his flight because the president needed to be in Poland. The tribunal’s website reported Friday that its president, Bogdan Święczkowski, had been suspended. The court’s X account disputed that information, saying Święczkowski remained president and alleging that the website had been unlawfully taken over. The website identified Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska as interim president, according to one report. The tribunal’s X account said Korwin-Piotrowska was not a judge of the court. The accounts leave the status of the leadership change in dispute; the reports provide no independent ruling resolving it. Police said officers were carrying out their duties at the tribunal. Reports described security being removed and barriers placed around the premises. Demonstrators gathered outside the building, and police said objects were thrown at officers. A report said officers dispersed protesters who had been...