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By Wojciech Kosc in Warsaw Poland’s ruling centrist coalition government began work on March 6 on legislation and other parliamentary acts seeking to undo changes in the country’s judiciary made by the previous government of the radical right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party . The Donald Tusk-led government plans to pass a law overhauling the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS), a judge-appointing body that is key to the entire court system in Poland. PiS had illegally engineered the KRS to make it politically obedient, the incumbent coalition claims. The illegal status of the KRS, the cur…