The president of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, announced on Wednesday that he had filed a report on the suspicion of committing a coup d’état by, among others, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Speaker of the Sejm Szymon Hołownia and Speaker of the Senate Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska.

An investigation was initiated by prosecutor Michał Ostrowski, reports Do Rzeczy.

“This is not a coup d’état involving bringing the army onto the streets, it is a creeping, systemic coup d’état,” Święczkowski stressed.

“The president of the Constitutional Tribunal made a statement today regarding the commission of a crime under Article 127 of the Penal Code, which refers to changing the political system by force,” said PiS chairman, Jarosław Kaczyński, at a press conference. He added that this is not the first time such an assessment was made and legal proceedings are underway. 

“This is the right reaction to the state of affairs that we have in Poland. We are dealing with a situation in which state institutions – public television, the prosecutor’s office, the National Council of the Judiciary – have been taken over by force. We are dealing with a situation in which the law has ceased to apply,” Kaczyński said.

Emphasizing that the allegations of a coup d’état are “completely justified,” the PiS chairman listed several illegal actions taking place, including changes in roles at the judiciary, in the courts, the non-recognition of many judges, and the violation of human rights.

“There is currently a growing wave of various types of repression, and completely unfounded, against members of parliament. These are things that have not happened in Poland since 1989 and are simply a change in the actual functioning of our country’s political system,” he said.