{"id":4152,"date":"2020-02-27T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2020-02-27T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:18:36","slug":"thousands-take-to-streets-to-protest-polands-law-and-justice-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4152","title":{"rendered":"Thousands take to streets to protest Poland&#8217;s Law and Justice party"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><figcaption>\n<p>Protesters turned out in force on the streets of Warsaw | Janek Skarzynski\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Thousands take to streets to protest Poland&#8217;s Law and Justice party<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Opposition party Civic Platform is leading in the polls for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Emmet Livingstone<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2017-05-06T18:24:00+00:00\">5\/6\/17, 6:24 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2017-05-06T18:25:13+00:00\">5\/6\/17, 6:25 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>As many as 90,000 people demonstrated in\u00a0Warsaw on Saturday in protest of the government&#8217;s perceived anti-democratic\u00a0tendencies and anti-Brussels rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s largest\u00a0opposition party Civic Platform, which organized the the\u00a0so-called Freedom March,\u00a0recently outstripped the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party in the polls for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>Civic Platform leader Grzegorz Schetyna on Saturday said the march was the first step to &#8220;freedom&#8221; \u2014 and an election win,\u00a0according to Radio Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the crowd repurposed U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; slogan, wearing caps and other gear that declared &#8220;Make Law &amp; Justice Small Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s government clashed with the European Commission over\u00a0its judicial policy after it sought to discard appointments\u00a0made to the country&#8217;s constitutional court while Civic Platform was still in power. Brussels opened investigations into the affair, while Polish opposition parties claimed the government was undermining\u00a0the country&#8217;s\u00a0democratic traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the march, PiS leader\u00a0Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski denied that there was any threat to the country&#8217;s freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly a total failure to see reality could lead someone to the conclusion that there is a threat to freedom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Schetyna countered the comments Saturday, saying \u201cthis is not true and we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-frag-list layout-linear article-in-this-section\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other speakers complained of the government&#8217;s spat with the Brussels, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Poland reported that members of other opposition parties, representatives from the Polish Teachers&#8217; Union, a former constitutional court judge and other leading dignitaries attended the march.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Emmet Livingstone<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.hoostyle.com\/lamp-shades\/habitat-tord-boontjes-garland-light-shade-flower-lamp-pendant-chandelier-black-htbglb' title='habitat tord boontje'>habitat tord boontje<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters turned out in force on the streets of Warsaw | Janek Skarzynski\/AFP via Getty Images Thousands take to streets to protest Poland&#8217;s Law and Justice party Opposition party Civic Platform is leading in the polls for the first time in years. 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