Dr. Oskar Kida to Tusk: “On August 6, Karol Nawrocki will become President of Poland – whether you like it or not!”

Despite increasingly desperate moves, Donald Tusk is unable-despite all his political posturing – to block the swearing-in of Karol Nawrocki as President of the Republic of Poland. As constitutional expert Dr. Oskar Kida explains, not even a final refusal to publish the decree convening the National Assembly would change anything in this regard.

On August 6, Karol Nawrocki is scheduled to be sworn in as President of Poland during a session of the National Assembly. The withholding of the decree summoning members of parliament is said to be yet another – and likely the last – desperate attempt by Tusk to prevent the winner of the June 1 election from taking office.

The penultimate move involved an attempt to pressure Marshal Hołownia not to convene the National Assembly at all – or, if the session began, to suspend it indefinitely. Since Hołownia reportedly refused to endorse an action that would, in effect, constitute a coup d’état, Tusk was left with only one remaining option: blocking the publication of the Marshal’s decree on the National Assembly in Monitor Polski.

But this blockade will ultimately achieve nothing. As constitutionalist Dr. Oskar Kida has demonstrated, even a final refusal to publish the decree convening the National Assembly cannot prevent Karol Nawrocki from being sworn in as President of Poland.

“No legal provision conditions the validity of this decree on its publication in Monitor Polski. In fact, if we read the decree carefully, paragraph 3 clearly states that it enters into force at the moment it is adopted,” explains the respected constitutional scholar, well known to viewers of Republika TV.