Poland’s ambassadors to China and Romania announced their resignations after a dispute over appointments to the Constitutional Court escalated overnight. [E1]
President Karol Nawrocki cut short a planned trip to Senegal and returned to Warsaw after the court’s website said its president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and deputy had been temporarily relieved of their duties. [E5]
Jakub Kumoch, Poland’s ambassador to China, said on Friday that he could no longer continue as ambassador. Paweł Soloch, Poland’s ambassador to Romania, followed early Saturday. [E3][E10][E7]
Soloch said the move against the tribunal was an attempt at an unlawful takeover. That is his allegation, not a legal finding in the record. [E2]
According to the Polish news agency PAP, both diplomats had previously worked for former president Andrzej Duda. [E4]
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski described the end of Kumoch’s mission as unprofessional and said both diplomats had remained at their posts at Duda’s request. [E8][E9]
This paper reported the two departures on 31 October. The change from that account is not a further resignation: the later account identifies Soloch in Romania and Kumoch in China. [E6]