Thousands attend 'Wake up Poland' demonstration in Warsaw
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
29.09.2012 17:25
Tens of thousands of supporters of opposition parties and the Solidarity trade union gathered in Warsaw, Saturday, to protest against the policies of the centre-right government.
Demonstration at pl. Trzech Krzyży (Three Crosses Square) in warsaw: photo - PAP/Rafal Gus
Solidarity spokesman Marek Lewandowski said that the trade union had, alone, bussed in around 30,000 of its supporters to protest, under the slogan 'Wake up Poland', against the government's economic policies and raising the retirement age.
“We will prevail because Poland has woken up,” former prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's largest opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS) told a rally before the demonstration began at noon.
The demonstration included a large group of listeners of the ultra-conservative Radio Maryja station, protesting against the exclusion of its sister television station TV Trwam from Poland's new digital platforms on “political grounds”, they claim.
The demonstration ended later on Saturday with speeches from Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Solidarity trade union leader Piotr Duda. (pg)
source: PAP/IAR