Poland’s populist president to pardon jailed ministers from former government

Move by Andrzej Duda, who is aligned with the populist PiS party ousted in last year's elections, would defy supreme court ruling

Poland's president has said he plans to pardon two imprisoned opposition politicians for a second time, adding that he hoped the move would ease mounting tensions between the country's new government and its populist predecessor.

The former interior minister Mariusz Kamiski and his ex-deputy Maciej Wsik - both from the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost its majority in October elections - were jailed on Tuesday after being arrested in the presidential palace.