"At such a moment, the President must be in Poland.
I'm interrupting my flight to Senegal.
I'm returning," Nawrocki said in a post on X.
Updated on: Oct 31, 2026, 08:17:43 IST By HT News Desk Prefer HTon Google Share via Copy link Polish President Karol Nawrocki returned to Poland on Friday, following the suspension of his far-right ally as head of the country's top court.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki, who had been flying to Senegal for a state visit, turned the plane around to return to Warsaw after the tribunal said on its website that the tribunal's president had been suspended. (Reuters) This intensified the power struggle with Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government over control of the judiciary, according to news agency Reuters.
The Constitutional Tribunal said on Friday that its longest-serving judge, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, had suspended the tribunal's president, Bogdan Swieczkowski, and assumed charge of the court.
Meanwhile, Polish PM Tusk, in an X post on Saturday, said his government was seeking to restore the rule of law.
"After years of PiS-led lawlessness, this is a difficult process, sometimes painful, and it requires decisive action.
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