By Alek Rybczynski, CFP's Poland Reporter ——Bio and Archives--October 31, 2026
Editor’s Note: An on-the-ground, worried Alek Rybczynski, Canada Free Press’ long-time Columnist in Poland is hoping that CFP will take today’s message world-wide and that justice and peace will return to his beloved Motherland.
What will history call this night, sleepless for a significant part of the Poles who managed to reach independent information, carefully censored by the mainstream media? A night of lawlessness, a night of totalitarian seizure of civil liberties?
The government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk--a puppet carrying out the orders of masters hidden deep behind the structures of the European Union--seized the Constitutional Tribunal on Friday, October 30. The Tribunal is Poland’s constitutional court (not to be confused with the Supreme Court), the body that stands guard over the country’s constitution and civil rights. The Tribunal’s president and vice president were not allowed into the building, and the corrupt minister of justice has filed a motion to strip them of their immunity. In their place, a female judge was installed who, apart from a long record of judicial service, has no authority whatsoever to hold that office.
Thousands of armed police officers in combat gear were brought to the Constitutional Tribunal’s headquarters. They stood face to face with a crowd of patriots and opposition politicians protesting this lawlessness.
The conflict did not begin that evening. Tusk’s government, known for its servile attitude toward the European Union and its stubborn incitement to war, did everything it could to seat compliant judges on the Tribunal, judges who would back the introduction of draconian censorship laws and restrictions on civil rights. Perceptive observers make no secret of the fact that we are witnessing a partition of Poland that will lead to a complete loss of national identity.
A coup--for that is what this operation is being called, carried out under the guise of “restoring the rule of law”--was planned with exceptional cynicism: on the eve of All Saints’ Day, which in Poland is a time of quiet family reflection and prayer for the dead. Everyone visits cemeteries then and pays tribute to ancestors who have passed on.
The calculation was that while everyone is turning away from politics and everyday affairs, the forceful takeover of the Tribunal would go through without any protest.
Meanwhile, President Karol Nawrocki, who was on a visit to Senegal, cut his trip short, turned his plane around, and showed up at the Tribunal. There he had to push his way through police blocking the entrance to the building, and right in the doorway a self-proclaimed judge even tried to stop him. “You are not coming in!” she screamed hysterically, trying to hold back the head of state with her little fists.
The police did not intervene, even though thousands of officers had been assembled. Demonstrators appealed to the police, most of them frightened, in helmets, behind plastic shields, not to turn against the nation and not to stand behind the lawlessness of the present political gang calling itself the government of the Republic of Poland.
At around five o’clock on Saturday morning, October 31, the President left the Constitutional Tribunal building. He has called urgent consultations with parliamentary groups for today in response to the crisis at the Tribunal. Separately, a meeting of the National Security Council is already scheduled for November 3, at 15:00.
Protesters remain in the streets, calling on everyone who holds freedom and a free Poland dear to come to Warsaw. Poles realize that we are facing a final showdown, with the fate of the entire nation at stake.
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