Several thousand demonstrators
Warsaw (AP) – Several thousand Poles took to the streets on Sunday in protest against the national-conservative government and a tightening of the abortion law.
Despite police barriers, demonstrators in the capital, Warsaw, got close to the home of Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is also head of the ruling party PiS. Police in front of the heavily secured house called on the crowd to disperse.
In October the constitutional court of the EU state ruled that women are not allowed to have an abortion even if the unborn child has severe malformations. Since then there have been protests. The decision means a tightening of the Polish abortion law, which is one of the strictest in Europe anyway.
Contrary to custom, the decision of the constitutional court has not yet been published in the official gazette. A government spokesman justified this with the fact that legislative solutions were still being sought.
In the past few weeks, the concerns of the protests have expanded: Many also express their dissatisfaction with government policy as a whole, and in particular with the handling of the Corona crisis. In addition, the police came under fire. Oppositionists accused her of being too tough against peaceful demonstrators. Before the march on Sunday, the organizers of the ruling party had also claimed that they wanted to establish a kind of martial law.
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