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EU watches Poland's Constitutional Tribunal crisis as Le Pen weighs in
The crisis deepened Friday night when President Karol Nawrocki went to the Tribunal building amid a deadlock over new judges, as police surrounded it live on television.
Tusk's government
Restoring the rule of law
The opposition
Attempting a coup
Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government says it is restoring the rule of law after years of Law and Justice (PiS) interference in the courts, while the opposition accuses it of attempting a coup.
New Tribunal judges elected by the Sejm
8 judges
The European Commission said it is closely watching, and that appointing eight new members of the Tribunal falls within the powers of the Sejm, Poland's parliament.
"Poland does not interfere in your politics. We ask you to respect us by not interfering in ours," Foreign Minister Sikorski told Le Pen, the National Rally's parliamentary leader, after she voiced "profound concern".
— Poland's foreign minister Sikorski
