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A demonstrator holds a poster reading 'Tusk go to Berlin' during a protest in front of the Polish Constitutional Court in Warsaw, Poland, October 31, 2026. (Beata Zawrzel/AP)

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday that his government would press ahead with efforts to restore the independence of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, as hundreds of protesters gathered for a second night against the suspension of the court’s president.

The pro-European government said the suspension is necessary to restore judicial independence, while critics from the opposition have likened it to a “coup d’etat.”

President Karol Nawrocki — who opposes the pro-European government — turned back his plane during a flight to Senegal on Friday evening and returned home.…