Grandfather of Polish right Kaczyński stages court drama and calls for Polexit, as he launches his 2027 comeback bid

With juvenile thugs in Germany, as well as France and Italy, now smashing shop windows, one old Polish man seems to have gotten FOMO. Jarosław Kaczyński, a 77-year-old rightwing Polish politician, and his supporters, tried to push past police to break into the Constitutional Court building in Warsaw on Friday (30 October), in a stage-managed stunt designed to farm video clips for X. Poland’s rightwing president and ex-boxer, Karol Nawrocki, also theatrically turned around his plane en route to Senegal to join them. And Kaczyński had thrown a political Molotov cocktail at a rally of his rightwing Law and Justice (PiS) party in the Polish town of Krynica one night earlier, on Thursday, when he said Poland should threaten to leave the EU, unless it agreed to dismantle the European Commission, which he called “the root of all evil”. To read this story, log in or subscribeEnjoy access to all articles and 25 years of archives, comment and gift articles. Become a subscriber for as low as €1,75 per week.Read without limitsAlready a subscriber? Login