Prime Minister Donald Tusk has expressed outrage over a protest held outside his apartment in Sopot, seemingly forgetting the demonstrations once organized by “his people” outside the homes of political opponents.
Tusk commented on the picket in a social media post, calling it the “height of courage” and linking the protest to President Karol Nawrocki and PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński. In response, former PiS MP and Constitutional Tribunal judge Krystyna Pawłowicz reminded the prime minister of demonstrations that took place outside her own home following the Constitutional Tribunal’s abortion ruling in 2020. The protests staged outside Jarosław Kaczyński’s residence in Warsaw’s Żoliborz district were also recalled.
On Thursday, a demonstration under the slogan “No to SAFE! The veto still applies” was held outside Donald Tusk’s apartment in Sopot. Shortly after it began, the prime minister responded on X, targeting President Karol Nawrocki and PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński.
“A protest on a children’s playground beneath the windows of my family apartment while I am away — that is the height of courage. Nawrocki and Kaczyński are surely proud of the heroic action carried out by their people,” Donald Tusk wrote.
Constitutional Tribunal judge Krystyna Pawłowicz reacted to the prime minister’s post by recalling demonstrations organized outside her residence after the Constitutional Tribunal’s October 2020 abortion ruling.
“Mr. Prime Minister, are you also proud of this ‘heroic action by your people’ beneath the windows of my apartment while I was away?” Pawłowicz wrote.
The protests outside Krystyna Pawłowicz’s home took place in late October 2020 as part of nationwide demonstrations following the Constitutional Tribunal ruling that tightened Poland’s abortion laws. On October 27, opponents of the ruling gathered outside the apartment block where the judge lived. Police officers secured the entrance to the building during the protest.
Following those events, reports indicated that Krystyna Pawłowicz had been placed under State Protection Service security. The judge herself referred to the protesters as “terrorists.”
The article also recalls demonstrations held between 2020 and 2022 outside the Warsaw home of PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński in the Żoliborz district. The protests intensified after the Constitutional Tribunal’s October 22, 2020 ruling. Demonstrations regularly took place near Mickiewicza Street, with the area heavily secured by police forces.