In brief

• The Ukrainian portal NV reports that Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced support for the Constitutional Tribunal amid a deepening political crisis in Poland.
• The Russian outlet Wiesti.ru (propaganda media) reports that suspended president Bogdan Święczkowski and his deputy Bartłomiej Sochański cannot enter the court building, because the acting head Anna Korwin-Piotrowska has banned them from entering.
• According to Wiesti.ru, Korwin-Piotrowska ordered the remaining judges to coordinate visits in advance and work remotely, and Minister Waldemar Żurek was reported to have requested the lifting of these judges' immunity in connection with a charge of obstructing the administration of justice.
• According to Wiesti.ru, information about the suspension of the judges appeared on the Tribunal's website on 30 October, and the court's official account on X described the takeover of the website as illegal and emphasized that Święczkowski remains in office.
• The Russian RIA Nowosti (propaganda media) reports that Beata Szydło requested an extraordinary meeting of the European Democracy Shield committee regarding Poland, and in her view the actions of Tusk's government may make fair parliamentary elections next autumn impossible; RIA Nowosti stresses that this is her assessment, not an established fact.

Ukrainian press

The Ukrainian portal NV reports that Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced support for the Constitutional Tribunal amid a deepening political crisis in Poland (Политический кризис в Польше. Туск пообещал поддержку Конституционному трибуналу – NV). The Russian outlet Wiesti.ru (propaganda media) reports that suspended president Bogdan Święczkowski and his deputy Bartłomiej Sochański cannot enter the court building because acting head Anna Korwin-Piotrowska has banned them from entering, and ordered the remaining judges to coordinate visits and work remotely; according to the outlet, Minister Waldemar Żurek also requested the lifting of their immunity in connection with a charge of obstructing the administration of justice. Both reports concern the dispute over the leadership of the Constitutional Tribunal, so they describe the same conflict from two perspectives (Отстраненному главе КС Польши и его заместителю запретили доступ в здание суда – Wiesti.ru (media propagandowe)).

Russian press

The Russian RIA Nowosti (propaganda media) conveys Kremlin propaganda, according to which former prime minister and MEP Beata Szydło requested an extraordinary meeting of the European Democracy Shield committee regarding Poland, in connection with the crisis surrounding the Constitutional Tribunal. According to RIA Nowosti (propaganda media), Szydło assesses that the actions of Donald Tusk's government may make fair parliamentary elections next autumn impossible, and the committee itself is to monitor violations of democracy in EU countries; this is her assessment, not an established fact. (Евродепутат запросила заседание Европейского демократического щита – RIA Nowosti (media propagandowe))

The Russian Wiesti.ru (propaganda media) presents this as a message of Kremlin propaganda, according to which Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, who styles herself head of the Constitutional Tribunal, banned propagandowe president Bogdan Święczkowski and his deputy Bartłomiej Sochański from entering the court building, and ordered the remaining judges to coordinate visits in advance and work remotely. The outlet states that information about the suspension of the judges appeared on the Tribunal's website on 30 October, and that Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General Waldemar Żurek requested the lifting of their immunity in connection with a charge of obstructing the administration of justice. According to the message, the court's official account on X described the takeover of the website as illegal and stressed that Święczkowski remains in office.

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