More on this story in the works as it shows how governments may attempt to use anti-foreign electoral interference laws to censor and harass the Opposition. Digital issues a plenty.
Participants join an anti-government march led by Donald Tusk and Lech Walesa, who along with other accuse the government of eroding democracy. 4 June 2023 – Copyright Czarek Sokolowski/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people marched in an anti-government protest in Poland’s capital on Sunday, with citizens traveling from across the country to voice their anger at officials who they say have eroded democratic norms and created fears that the nation is following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy.
Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who belongs to the opposition party that led the march, estimated that 500,000 people took part. The Onet news portal estimated there there were at least 300,000 at the march’s culmination.
“Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Warsaw on Sunday in a huge display of opposition to the governing party before an October general election, summoning memories of Poland’s rejection of Communist Party rule decades before.
Andrew Higgins in the New York Times
The event, organized by the government’s political rivals, sought to deprive Poland’s deeply conservative Law and Justice party of its claims to the legacy of Solidarity, the trade union movement that led the struggle against a Communist system imposed by Moscow after World War II.”
