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Polish central bank threatens legal action against Tusk over 'threats'

FILE PHOTO: Donald Tusk, leader of opposition Civic Platform (PO) party, gestures during a rally in support of Poland's membership in the European Union after the country's Constitutional Tribunal ruled on the primacy of the constitution over EU law, undermining a key tenet of European integration, in Warsaw, Poland, October 10, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Poland's central bank said on Thursday it will ask prosecutors to investigate opposition leader Donald Tusk for threatening behaviour, after the former European Council president said its governor was reappointed illegally and should be sacked.

The move marks an escalation in a war of words between central bank chief Adam Glapinski and Tusk, who has been scathing in his criticism of the governor's management of monetary policy at a time when inflation has surged to its highest level in a quarter of a century.

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