Poland: Kaczinski denounces the demonstrations which aim "to destroy the country"
Jaroslaw Kaczinski, here September 26, 2020. AP Photo / Czarek Sokolowski
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In Poland, the leader of the ruling ultra-conservative party broke his silence.
Jaroslaw Kaczinski reacted after several days of protests against the virtual ban on abortion in the country.
The strong man of Poland denounced demonstrations which aim "to destroy the country".
A speech far from easing tensions, while a national strike is scheduled for Wednesday in the country where the demands go beyond the question of the right to abortion.
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With our correspondent in Warsaw,
Sarah Bakaloglou
Gathered in front of the Polish Parliament, Anja and Claudia are part of the older generation of demonstrators for women's rights.
But the challenge of past years has nothing to do with the current one, rejoice the two friends.
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In 2016
,” says Claudia, “
I didn't see so many young people in the streets. It's really the difference!
We are at a time when young people are simply fed up with government.
"No one is going to calm them down, not a priest, not the police, or the government," Anja continues.
Young people notice the bullshit.
"
Because if access to abortion was the starting point of the dispute, the demands of the demonstrators now go further: to restore the independence of the judiciary, to put an end to the influence of the Church on politics.
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We want to organize a kind of council for the experts, the authorities, the activists, and the demonstrators to sit together, and to think about how to reorganize the country,"
says Klementyna Suchanow, of the women's strike movement.
Everyone wants the government to go.
New major demonstrations are planned in the Polish capital this Friday.
The government has not only the right but also the duty to oppose these demonstrations.
But they have another aspect: the attacks on the churches, which is totally new in the history of Poland, at least on this scale.
It is a terrible event, because one can judge the church differently, one can be a believer or not, but Poland guarantees complete freedom of religion, and it is certain that this morality which the Church carries, it is is the only moral system known to the entire population in Poland, and to reject it is nihilism ...
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