Two Polish ambassadors quit in protest as top-court crisis deepens
Two of Poland’s most senior diplomats resigned on Thursday, 30 October, in protest at the crisis gripping the country’s Constitutional Tribunal, carrying a domestic fight over the top court into Poland’s foreign service.
Jakub Kumoch, Poland’s ambassador to China, announced on X that he had submitted his resignation and asked to be recalled. “In light of the events in the country, I have concluded that it is no longer possible for me to continue serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland,” he wrote. Hours later, Paweł Soloch, the ambassador to Romania, followed him, saying that because of what he called an attempt to unlawfully take over the tribunal, he saw no possibility of continuing in his post.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski answered Kumoch within hours, calling the end of his mission unprofessional and saying the departing envoy “no longer represents the Republic”. The president’s office took the opposite view: Marcin Przydacz, head of President Karol Nawrocki’s International Policy Bureau, praised Kumoch’s decision and accused the government of acting unlawfully against the court.
The resignations came on the day the crisis boiled over in Warsaw. A judge, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, announced that the tribunal’s president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and his vice-president, Bartłomiej Sochański, had been suspended, and that she was taking temporary charge of the court. Police were deployed around the building, and President Nawrocki cut short a trip to Senegal to return home. Prime Minister Donald Tusk defended the government’s move, saying: “Restoring the rule of law is our duty.”
Why it matters
The two resignations show that the fight over the Constitutional Tribunal is no longer confined to Warsaw’s courts and politics. When ambassadors walk out over a domestic dispute, it signals to allies abroad that Poland’s institutions are in open conflict, and it hands the opposition a powerful symbol ahead of parliamentary elections due next year.
What happens next
Korwin-Piotrowska has called a general assembly of the tribunal’s judges for 3 November, while the justice minister has asked for the suspended pair’s immunity from prosecution to be lifted. Watch whether the resignations are formally accepted, whether more diplomats follow, and how the court itself responds.
Sources
- https://globalnewspakistan.com/polish-ambassador-quit-constitutionalcrisis/ (Global News Pakistan, 31 October 2026)
- https://europediplomatic.com/2026/10/31/poland-two-ambassadors-quit-in-protest/ (Europe Diplomatic, 31 October 2026)
- https://www.europesays.com/poland/33849/ (Europe Says, 31 October 2026)
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