Zakharova Comments on Constitutional Crisis in Poland

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the constitutional crisis in Poland, comparing the Polish crisis to the developments in Ukraine in 2013 - 2014.

Zakharova said in a post on "Telegram" on Sunday that "what the Polish authorities are experiencing now in their country, considering it a collapse and a tragedy, while trying to prevent things from sliding into bloody disaster and restoring the situation to the legal course, is what Warsaw supported and blessed when it happened to their Ukrainian neighbors."

Zakharova suggested that the Polish elite "will not like" what happened in Ukraine. She asked: "Why were they doing exactly those things in Ukraine?"

She recalled that the leader of the "Law and Justice" party Jaroslaw Kaczynski and the Vice President of the European Parliament from the Polish "Civic Platform" party Jacek Protasiewicz spoke before protesters at Independence Square in Kyiv in December 2013, and that current Prime Minister Donald Tusk thanked them for the "strong common voice" in Kyiv.

Zakharova added, referring to both sides of the current Polish crisis, that "the ruling party and the opposition, who cannot today share the Constitutional Court in their country, were standing then on one platform with Ukrainian extremists."

It is worth noting that Poland is witnessing a severe constitutional crisis, where judges of the Constitutional Court announced last Friday the dismissal of the court president and his deputy, who are backed by President Karol Nawrocki, who refused to accept the oath of office from a number of judges supported by Prime Minister Donald Tusk's party.

The dispute between Nawrocki and the "Law and Justice" party on one side, and Tusk's government and the "Civic Platform" party on the other, regarding the legitimacy of the judges remains intense. Both sides have exchanged accusations of orchestrating a "coup" in the country.