Constitutional Crisis in Poland as PM Sends Police to Storm Top Court

Poland appears to be in a state of constitutional crisis on Friday after Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent police to install a loyalist to control the nation's constitutional court, in defiance of President Karol Nawrocki and the judicial body. Video footage showed police entering the Constitutional Tribunal on Friday evening. President Nawrocki was en route to Senegal, but has turned his plane around to address the situation.

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