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Polónia: crise no Tribunal Constitucional opõe Tusk e Nawrocki
Presidente polaco Karol Nawrocki entra no Tribunal Constitucional para exigir reposição da juíza conservadora suspensa, num dia de novos juízes, protestos, Ucrânia a preparar o inverno e crise do Ébola.
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Presidente polaco Karol Nawrocki entra no Tribunal Constitucional para exigir reposição da juíza conservadora suspensa, num dia de novos juízes, protestos, Ucrânia a preparar o inverno e crise do Ébola.
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00:14Good morning, it's Monday, November 2nd, you're watching Euronews and this is Europe Today.
00:21Our top stories, Poland's long-standing political battle over the judiciary
00:27has reached a new flashpoint after President Karol Navrotsky forced his way into the Constitutional Tribunal
00:34amid clashes between riot police and anti-government protesters.
00:39Navrotsky and supporters are demanding the reinstatement of a conservative top judge
00:43whose suspension is backed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-EU government.
00:49Mass demonstrations in Germany that passed largely peacefully turned violent as night fell on Saturday
00:55and rioters faced off against police in Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.
01:01The protesters demanded better education and lower living costs.
01:05Authorities made arrests and used water cannons to break up the crowds.
01:09Rioters threw molotov cocktails and set of fireworks,
01:13with police maintaining a visible presence after the streets had emptied on Sunday.
01:18And China has shown no interest in holding a three-way summit with Russia and the United States on Ukraine.
01:25That's according to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in an interview broadcast last night
01:31following Steinmeier's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
01:36China considers Ukraine a purely European affair, Steinmeier said.
01:40The three-way summit was proposed by Vladimir Putin and had the backing of Donald Trump.
01:45Welcome to the program. I'm Stefan Grobe.
01:49Poland is facing a deepening constitutional crisis with the government and the presidency
01:55locked in a bitter battle over who controls the judiciary.
01:59The government under Donald Tusk says it is restoring the rule of law.
02:04President Karol Nawrowski's camp accuses it of trying to seize the courts.
02:09So who is really undermining Poland's democracy?
02:12And can this confrontation be resolved before it spirals further?
02:17We're going to hear from both sides of the issue.
02:20First, I'm joined by Mikhail Vavrekiewicz,
02:23a member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party, the party of Donald Tusk.
02:28Good morning and thanks for coming on.
02:31Good morning. Thank you for having me.
02:33So we've now seen an extraordinary confrontation with newly elected judges entering the tribunal,
02:41the president of the court being challenged and President Karol Nawrowski personally intervening.
02:47Who actually has the legal authority to decide who sits on the tribunal and who runs it?
02:53We are facing the huge constitutional crisis in Poland, in the Constitutional Court of Poland since 2015,
03:03when the Law and Justice Party started the government and they brutally assaulted the Constitutional Court.
03:12Since that time, we had a lot of violations and this situation was challenged by all possible courts,
03:22also European courts, European courts of human rights and the court of justice.
03:26And they all confirmed that what has happened in 2015, 2016 and later on, that was the violation.
03:34Now we are, the government of Donald Tusk and the majority in the Parliament and the judges who were elected
03:42by the Parliament
03:43are trying to restore the rule of law in the Parliament.
03:47And what we have seen is that on Friday, newly elected judges entered the Constitutional Court
03:58and the judge Anna Korvin-Piotrowska ordered the suspension of two judges,
04:06the president and the vice president of the Constitutional Court,
04:10who were appointed by the Law and Justice Party.
04:14So, uh...
04:15Michal, let me ask you this.
04:17The government says it is restoring judicial independence after years of political weaponization
04:22under the Law and Justice Party.
04:24But isn't the government now doing exactly what it accused law and justice of doing,
04:29using political power to reshape the judiciary?
04:33Definitely not.
04:35The government, the majority in the Parliament and the judges elected by the Parliament
04:41are acting according to the rulings of the European courts,
04:46of the Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights,
04:49according to what Venice Commission confirmed just two weeks ago,
04:53and according to the interim measure which was issued on the 5th of May this year,
04:59allowing these judges to enter the Constitutional Court.
05:02They were blocked by the president and the vice president of the court,
05:06and that's why Judge Anna Korvin-Piotrowska decided to suspend these two judges,
05:14the president and the vice president of the court.
05:15And that is what happened on Friday.
05:18And later on, in the night, what we have seen was the brutal assault of the president of the republic,
05:26who entered, using force, entered the building of the Constitutional Court,
05:31and using the force, almost damaged the judges standing in front of the court.
05:38So this is what we have seen.
05:40That was the brutal assault of the president of the republic on the independence of the Constitutional Court.
05:46So the European Commission says the same, the parliament,
05:50has the constitutional power to appoint judges to the Constitutional Tribunal.
05:54Does that settle the argument?
05:57Yes, definitely.
05:59The only competent authority in Poland to appoint judges of the Constitutional Court is the parliament,
06:06the lower chamber of the parliament in Poland.
06:09The president does not have any competences to appoint judges.
06:15That's why the only right is on the side of the parliament and the government and the judges who were
06:21elected properly by the parliament.
06:23So we are facing the enforcement of law, the restoring of the rule of law,
06:30and independence of this most important constitutional court in Poland.
06:34And what is the concrete way out of this crisis now?
06:38And what would it take to secure some sort of cross-party recognition of the tribunal?
06:44Well, the consistency of all of the actions in the next days, in the future.
06:50Tomorrow, there is an assembly, general assembly of all judges of the Constitutional Court,
06:56and they will decide upon the future of the Constitutional Court.
07:00This is the only competent body in the Constitutional Court to decide about the future of the Constitutional Court,
07:10of the judges, and of the suspended president and vice president of the court.
07:16If Tusk and Nawrotsky refuse to back down, who actually has the power to stop this crisis?
07:24Well, this crisis, as I said, started back in 2015.
07:30This year, President Nawrotsky, who is trying to block all of the restoration of the rule of law,
07:36all of the implementation of the rulings of the European courts,
07:40which is the most important because these rulings are drawing the roadmap how to get out of the crisis.
07:49But President Nawrotsky needs and wants to keep the power of his political camp over the Constitutional Court.
07:58So this is the fault of President Nawrotsky and his camp, that they don't want to restore the rule of
08:05law.
08:05They want to keep the political power over the Constitutional Court.
08:09That was the politically manipulated theater of puppets for 10 years, and they want to keep it.
08:17This is quite an extraordinary crisis.
08:20I can't remember anything like it in any other EU country.
08:24Are you worried that this story sort of harms the international, the European reputation of Poland?
08:32Our European friends deeply understand the situation in Poland,
08:38because they are facing this situation for many years.
08:42And this situation, and also in other parts of the judiciary,
08:46was discussed, debated in the parliament, in other institutions of the European Union many times.
08:52So I truly believe that they understand this situation,
08:56and they understand that the government of Donald Tusk is trying to restore,
09:01rebuild the rule of law in Poland.
09:05And we will be fully consistent in that way.
09:09And I believe we will do that.
09:11You are right that this is an unprecedented situation, not only in Poland, but in the whole Europe.
09:16Never happened before.
09:18But we are where we are, and we need to act on the battlefield where we are.
09:24All right, Michal Wawrejkiewicz, member of the European People's Party in the European Parliament.
09:29Thank you very much.
09:30Now I want to hear from the other side of the issue.
09:34And to do this, Polish Secretary of State and advisor to President Nawrowski,
09:38Marcin Pszedacz, joins us now.
09:40Good morning to you.
09:42Good morning.
09:43Very good morning.
09:44Hello, sir.
09:45So the government says it is trying to restore the tribunal's independence
09:48after years of political interference.
09:50President Nawrowski says the government is trying to take control of the court.
09:54Which side is defending the Constitution?
09:58Well, definitely restoring any kind of rule of law,
10:03which the government claims should not be done by the 3,000 riot police
10:09entering the premises of the constitutional tribunal.
10:13And that is what happened in the evening of Friday,
10:18when people in Poland were heading towards their families out of Warsaw for the All Saints Day.
10:25It was a very quiet in the capital of Poland evening.
10:30President was on his way to Senegal.
10:32And suddenly we learned that Prime Minister Tusk sent 3,000 riot police troops
10:40in order to, as they say, clean the constitutional tribunal
10:45without any legal basis for that.
10:49Of course, there is a crisis.
10:50Of course, there is a dispute over that.
10:53But even the lawyers who are very close to the liberal government
10:59says that there is absolutely no legal basis for such a behavior of the government.
11:05What's more, the president of the Supreme Court
11:08and the president of the National Administrative Court,
11:11so the two most important judges in Poland,
11:14they also said publicly that there is absolutely no legitimate basis
11:19for such a behavior of the government.
11:21So that's why we are in such a crisis now in Poland.
11:24Sir, I mean, we all saw the scenes
11:28where President Nawarovsky entered the building, the tribunal building.
11:32Critics described the visit as a PR stunt to exert pressure on the court.
11:37Why did the president decide to intervene in person?
11:41And what exactly was he trying to achieve?
11:44Well, according to the Polish constitution,
11:47the president of the Republic of Poland is the guard of the constitution.
11:52So whenever he sees that the constitution is violated,
11:55he is obliged to react.
11:58But before going to the tribunal,
12:00he went to his own palace,
12:02invited the president of the Supreme Court
12:05in order to learn his perspective,
12:08in order to learn an expertise on that.
12:10what's going on and how should he treat it that?
12:13The president is the head of state
12:15with a very strong, strong,
12:19he's a legitimized leader,
12:21I mean, with a very strong mandate.
12:23More than 10 million people voted directly for him,
12:26but he wanted to learn the perspective of the legal perspective.
12:31After learning that it's all illegal,
12:35he went there in order to first learn on the basis
12:39what's going on there.
12:40The second to help the legitimate president
12:43and the deputy president of the tribunal
12:46enter the building in order to restore the order.
12:50Unfortunately, he was blocked by the police,
12:53those appointees of Prime Minister Tusk
12:58who are claiming that there are judges.
13:00But as Prime Minister Tusk publicly said,
13:03these are his judges.
13:05So the Prime Minister Tusk says,
13:07these are my judges.
13:08We believe that there shouldn't be any my, his or their judges,
13:13there should be legitimate legal judges,
13:16not Tusk's judges.
13:17Okay, sir, are President Nowrowski and Prime Minister Tusk
13:19now effectively fighting a constitutional war?
13:24Well, as I said,
13:26there is a constitutional crisis, definitely.
13:29And the people of Poland gathered in front of the tribunal
13:33protesting against that kind of situation,
13:36mostly protesting, of course, against the entrance of police.
13:40They do, there are evidence that there is a crisis.
13:45What President Nowrowski said and did after that,
13:49he invited all the political parties to the palace in order to talk,
13:53because we believe that in democracy,
13:55it is the dialogue which may solve the crisis.
13:59The problem is that Prime Minister Tusk was not eager to really talk.
14:07He just issued his statement through the public television,
14:12saying that he will not step back from that,
14:15and he will only keep the police there in the constitutional tribunal.
14:21So all the other parties are very much eager to talk and to consult.
14:25And there is one main message coming from all the parties.
14:28It cannot be like this.
14:30There is a need for any kind of restart of a situation.
14:34So we do believe that based on that,
14:37we will build something positive.
14:39All right, Polish Secretary of State and Presidential Advisor Marcin Przedasz,
14:43thank you very much this morning.
14:46Almost 5,000 dead, more than 10,000 infected.
14:50The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is escalating.
14:54Yet the international response is struggling to keep pace.
14:58The Elders, a group of former world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela,
15:03are demanding urgent action.
15:05Earlier, I spoke to one of their most influential personalities,
15:08former Irish President Mary Robinson.
15:10And I started by asking her whether we're witnessing a global health emergency
15:14that the world is simply choosing to ignore.
15:18Here's what she said.
15:19It's really tragic what's happening,
15:21because this is the fastest moving Ebola.
15:2510,000 cases and about 50% mortality,
15:29which means more than 5,000 people have died.
15:32But worse than that,
15:33they're not able to follow up on the contacts
15:36because of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
15:40Of course, I know it well from my time as mediator
15:43for the Great Lakes in Africa,
15:44for the UN.
15:45And there is an urgent need for resources
15:49to help with contacts,
15:51to help the health workers,
15:53the frontline health workers,
15:54and to help with humanitarian access, etc.
15:57It has now spread.
15:59There are some cases also in Kenya,
16:02in Uganda,
16:02in Nigeria,
16:03and France.
16:04So it is very dangerous because of the fact that they are not able to trace the contacts,
16:11and much less than in the Ebola in 2014, for example.
16:15And this is very worrying.
16:17So the elders are calling for more international action.
16:21What exactly are you demanding?
16:23Is it more money,
16:24more medical personnel,
16:26or a totally different international approach to this crisis?
16:30We're so worried that we actually wrote an open letter to the G20
16:36because 3 billion euros was pledged,
16:40but only a billion is being released.
16:43And of course,
16:44the G20 includes members of the EU.
16:47So we ask for the release of the funds that were pledged
16:50and are needed really urgently.
16:52And this should include specific funds to protect,
16:56pay, and support health workers,
16:58and community leaders for village centres' responses to the frontline,
17:02and funds for humanitarian early recovery needs.
17:06It also calls for guaranteed fair access
17:09to approved vaccines and treatment for priority groups.
17:12First, to counter mutation risks,
17:15because there is a mutation risk, apparently,
17:18particularly in the DRC.
17:19and address the security dimension of the crisis
17:23by pressurising armed groups in the DRC
17:26and neighbouring countries with influence
17:28to allow safe access for health and humanitarian workers.
17:32They're the main calls that we make in that open letter.
17:36It was really very worrying, as I said,
17:40to see how quickly this is spreading,
17:42how high the mortality rate is,
17:45and, you know,
17:46only a billion of the three billion pledged
17:49has actually been released to address it.
17:52So you've been a leading international voice
17:55for human rights and international global justice.
17:59This is kind of a tough question.
18:02Is the impression right that the international community
18:06treats African lives as less valuable than European and American lives?
18:11I'm afraid it is a tough question,
18:13but you have to feel that, you know,
18:16the lives of those who are invisible to us,
18:19they're poor, they live in remote areas
18:22that are under difficulty of militias and armed groups,
18:26and we don't care enough.
18:28We don't care enough.
18:29That's true.
18:30And are Western governments guilty of complacency here,
18:34or are they simply overwhelmed
18:36by the magnitude of the crisis and shrinking aid budgets?
18:42I think there are a number of factors that distract governments,
18:46but the point we're making is this is dangerous.
18:49If you have a highly communicable disease
18:53and you're not able to trace the contacts
18:55because you don't have the resources to do it,
18:57it will spread further,
18:59and this could be really serious,
19:01particularly for African countries,
19:02but then it will spread to Europe.
19:06Former Irish President Mary Robinson
19:08on the growing Ebola crisis in Africa.
19:11More news today on all our platforms
19:14until we see each other again tomorrow.
19:18That's it for today.
19:19I thank you for watching.
19:20I'm Stefan Grobe.
19:21Take care.
19:56I'm Stefan Grobe.