Collaboration scandal rocks Constitutional Tribunal

Although both judges denied the allegations, they left the decision with Jerzy Stepien, the Court's chairman, who decided to suspend them. The hearing resumed with a reduced panel, and the Court could still give its verdict today. Mularczyk's gambit was made possible by swift action by officials at the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), who prepared the documents for him within several hours on Wednesday. Opposition politicians cried foul. "This proves that the IPN is a political tool in the hands of PiS", said Ryszard Kalicz of SLD "This is yet another salvo in PiS's war with the Constitutional Court," commented PO's Donald Tusk (Dziennik, p. 1; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1; Rzeczpospolita, p. A1; Fakt, p.1) R.M.