WARSAW, Poland—Poland‘s President Karol Nawrocki called off a visit to Africa in mid-flight as riot police deployed around the country’s constitutional court Friday. This comes following the suspension of its chief justice in a battle between the centrist government and the nationalist right. Dozens of police guarded the entrance to the court as followers of the opposition right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) protested the ousting of constitutional court president Bogdan Swieczkowski. The court’s official X social media account said there had been a “coup d’etat” and some demonstrators chanted “Tusk traitor” as they condemned the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. […]...

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