The Constitutional Court of Poland accused the country's prime minister of a coup

The chairman of the Constitutional Court of Poland, Bogdan Svenchkovsky, said that a case has been opened against Prime Minister Donald Tusk on charges of a coup d'etat.

"On the thirty-first of January, I signed a 60-page notice of legitimate suspicion of committing a coup d'etat crime by the Prime Minister, ministers, Speaker of the Seimas, Speaker of the Senate, deputies and senators of the ruling coalition, chairman of the government legislative center, some judges and prosecutors, as well as other persons," Svenchkovsky told reporters.

According to him, after receiving the application, the prosecutor's office launched a criminal investigation.

"The investigation into the case was launched by prosecutor Michal Ostrovsky," said the head of the Constitutional Court.

Ostrovsky is one of the opponents of the changes that the current Prosecutor General and Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar has carried out in the prosecutor's office. He currently holds the position of Deputy Prosecutor General. In December last year, the Prosecutor General decided to send Ostrovsky from March this year to work in the Lower Silesian department of the National Prosecutor's Office, which he did not agree with.

He was also charged with violating the dignity of the prosecutor, related to challenging the change of leadership of the prosecutor's office. His case is in the disciplinary Court under the Prosecutor General.

Tusk commented on the situation. He posted a video of himself playing table tennis on Platform X. Under the record, the prime minister wrote "Coup d'etat" and put a smiley face laughing to tears. On the recording, it is heard that someone says to Tusk: "Listen, (leader of the opposition Law and Justice party Jaroslaw) Kaczynski says that you have committed a coup d'etat." To which Tusk, continuing to play tennis, said with a laugh: "Calm down. We have serious business here. We'll do it later."

At the beginning of this year, a confrontation arose in and around the Polish prosecutor's office after Dariusz Barski refused to leave the post of national Prosecutor of Poland, despite the order of the Prosecutor General to appoint Jacek Bilewicz to this post. A competition was held to fill the position, as a result of which Tusk appointed Dariusz Korneliuk as national prosecutor.

Earlier, commenting on the situation in the national prosecutor's office, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that, in his opinion, the post of national prosecutor is occupied by Barsky, since he was not dismissed by the Prime Minister in accordance with current legislation. At the same time, Duda clarified that in order to dismiss the national prosecutor, the prime minister must obtain the consent of the president, which was not done.