Warsaw [Poland], January 10: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused President Andrzej Duda of obstructing the imprisonment of two legally convicted members of the ousted national-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS).
"Mr President, my heartfelt appeal for the good of the Polish state: you must put an end to this spectacle. It will lead us into a very dangerous situation," Tusk said in Warsaw.
He warned that Duda and PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński would be held accountable for sabotaging the constitution and breaking the law. The political rivals have been at loggerheads since Tusk's coalition toppled the long-time ruling party in elections.
The president, who comes from the PiS ranks, is sheltering the former interior minister Mariusz Kamiński and his state secretary Maciej Wąsik in the presidential palace. Police were poised to arrest them and take them to prison but found them at the palace, not at home.
Kamiński said, "We are not hiding. At the moment we are with Poland's president until evil loses." Both politicians had been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for abuse of office by a Warsaw district court in December and were due to begin serving their sentences. (DPA)
Source: Qatar Tribune
