Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Poland on Sunday against the policies of the national conservative ruling party PiS. The participants of the protest march thronged the center of Warsaw. The demonstrators carried posters with the inscription “Europe, we apologize for the PiS”, “Abracadabra – gone is the PiS macabre” and “PiS in the urinal”. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and former head of the Solidarnosc trade union, Lech Walesa, also took part in the demonstration.
Former Prime Minister and opposition leader Donald Tusk of the liberal-conservative Civic Platform called for protest. But other opposition parties also joined. The organizers and the police initially gave no information about the exact number of demonstrators.
June 4 is an important date in Poland: on this day in 1989, the first partially free elections took place – a triumph of the democratic movement and the trade union Solidarnosc, which also heralded the end of communist rule.
“We are here today so that all Poland, all Europe, all the world can see how strong we are, how many of us are ready to fight for freedom and democracy like 30 and 40 years ago,” Tusk said before the demonstrators.
The protest is also directed against a new law that would establish a commission of inquiry into Russian influence. Critics accuse the PiS of using this law a few months before parliamentary elections to pillory opposition politicians for allegedly being pro-Russian. The commission must investigate whether government officials made decisions under Russian influence in the years 2007 to 2022 that endangered Poland’s security.
Polish media speak of a “Lex Tusk” – a law devised on Tusk. The man from Gdańsk was the Polish head of government from 2007 to 2014 and is regarded as the fiercest political opponent of PiS boss Jaroslaw Kaczynski. The PiS government accuses him of signing unfavorable gas contracts with Russia. (sda/dpa)
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