Leaders of most opposition parties called on their supporters to join a big march against the ruling nationalist and populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by Jarosław Kaczynski and his allies.. The length of the route was at least one and a half kilometers.

“Enough!” “We don’t want an authoritarian Poland.“PiS means precision,” “Free, European Poland,” “European Union yes, PiS no,” read banners targeting the majority that has ruled Poland for nearly eight years as parliamentary elections are expected to be held in the fall. .

With white and red hearts taped to their chests, the officers of the Civic Platform led the march, accompanied by the legendary leader of the world’s first communist free trade union of the 1980s, Lech Walesa, 1983 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

In a short speech before the march Tusk emphasized that the opposition’s mission was of “comparable importance” to the mission he carried out in the 1980s and the then fight against communism.

Walesa, who has been absent from the political scene for a long time, said he was “patiently” waiting for the day when the Nationalist Party and its leader Kaczynski would have to leave. “K. Kaczynski, we have come for you. This day has come,” said Walesa.

Today’s date, chosen for the demonstration that the opposition sees as decisive for an eventual victory in the elections, is the 34th anniversary of the first partially free elections in Poland, which hastened the fall of communism in Europe.

The Lech Walesa movement then succeeded in electing 160 of its candidates to the lower house, winning almost all the seats it could compete for, i.e. 35% of the seats in that house and 99% of all seats in the Senate.

According to APE-MPE, AFP and Reuters.

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