FILE PHOTO: Leader of Law and Justice party Jaroslaw Kaczynski speaks during an interview with Reuters in his office at party headquarters in Warsaw, Poland December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo
WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Commission's warning to Warsaw to halt its judiciary reforms is political and the EU should not be meddling in the matter, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, said on Wednesday.
"Those matters that we are dealing with right now belong exclusively to the jurisdiction of the country, so what we have here is an abuse (of their powers)," Kaczynski, Poland's de-facto leader, told the state television TVP.
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