Poland will elect a new parliament in two weeks. If the PiS party wins, it could govern with the ultra-right Konfederacja. The opposition is now mobilizing for a protest.
Two weeks before the parliamentary elections in Poland, more than a hundred thousand people demonstrated on Sunday against the policies of the national-conservative ruling party PiS. The participants marched tightly through the center of Warsaw. Demonstrators carried placards reading “We have had enough and want change” and “Together we have strength.”
The liberal-conservative Citizens’ Coalition (KO), which emerged from Donald Tusk’s former ruling party Citizens Platform, called for the “March of a Million Hearts”. The demonstration is also supported by the left-wing alliance Lewica.
Tusk: “This change is inevitable”
“Nothing can stop this power,” said Tusk. “No one in the ranks of power above should have any illusions. This change is inevitable.”
At the start of the event, Tusk spoke of almost a million participants, the PAP news agency reported almost 100,000 demonstrators, citing unofficial information from the police.
Poland will elect a new parliament on October 15th. In all surveys so far, the national conservative PiS, which has been in power since 2015, leads by a clear margin. However, it could need a coalition partner to form a government – and find this in the ultra-right Konfederacja.
Tusk’s Citizens Coalition is in second place in polls. She hopes to mobilize her supporters with the demonstration so that she can still win the parliamentary election.
Source: Stern
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