Poland’s conservative opposition has moved to oust Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government through a parliamentary no-confidence motion, proposing a temporary administration as the country’s constitutional crisis deepened.
Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday that a motion of no confidence would be submitted against Tusk’s government and proposed replacing it with a temporary administration led by former Parliament Speaker Marek Jurek.
“We are submitting a motion of no confidence in Donald Tusk’s government,” Morawiecki wrote on X.
“Our proposal: a technical government led by Marek Jurek, to remain in place until elections that will determine a new parliamentary majority,” he added.
‘Violation of the constitutional order’
The announcement follows a confrontation over Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, which President Karol Nawrocki described as a “violation of the constitutional order” and a “forcible takeover of a constitutional state body”.
Nawrocki cut short a trip to Senegal and returned to Warsaw overnight. He called urgent consultations with parliamentary parties on Saturday, citing what he described as a threat to Poland’s internal security.
The crisis erupted after Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska suspended tribunal head Bogdan Swieczkowski and assumed control of the institution. Swieczkowski and the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party rejected the move as illegal.
Tusk’s government says it is seeking to restore the rule of law following judicial changes introduced during eight years of PiS rule, which ended in 2023.
The opposition accuses the government of attempting to seize control of independent state institutions.
