Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski claimed that the opponents of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s judicial overhaul were being assisted by Russian bots.
Tusk and his rival, President Karol Nawrocki, haven’t budged since the latter dramatically pushed through police barricades to enter the Supreme Court and denounce the judges who tried to seize control of the judiciary. The theater of Friday and Saturday has energized Poland’s nationalist Right, while Tusk’s camp has shifted to portraying the resistance to his attempted judicial takeover as a right-wing fringe controlled by Russia.
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