# Poland crisis: President ‘doesn’t have competence to appoint judges’

https://mins.news/en/video/125087

- euronews, 2026-11-02 07:41 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDAdW7CwGXg

> MEP Michał Wawrykiewicz said on Europe Today that the president lacks authority to appoint judges, as President Nawrocki and Prime Minister Tusk clash over disputed judges on Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal.

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