The country’s Euroskeptic president and pro-Brussels government are locked in a bitter feud over control of the Constitutional Tribunal

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola was greeted by an unusual spectacle in the Polish parliament on Friday, as opposition lawmakers unfurled a large ‘TUSK=DICTATOR’ banner and accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk of orchestrating a coup against the country’s judiciary.

The protest erupted shortly after Metsola began addressing the Sejm, Poland’s lower house of parliament, during an official visit to Warsaw. MPs from the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party displayed photographs of riot police outside the Constitutional Tribunal and held up yellow placards warning in English that a “coup d’état” is underway in Poland, instigated by Tusk.

The stunt was intended to draw international attention to a bitter constitutional crisis that has pitted Tusk’s pro-EU ruling coalition against Euroskeptic President Karol Nawrocki and his conservative allies.

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