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Polls have closed in Poland and the ruling PiS looks set to be the largest party. However, both the largest parties seemed to claim victory in the minutes after the polls closed. What comes next is not yet clear.
Society awakening Poland is torn. The fault lines lie not only in its corridors of power but its streets. Outraged by the top court’s decision in October that effectively banned nearly all abortions, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, braving brutal police force, batons, and teargas, have taken to the streets to peacefully protest against changes to abortion laws. They were already among the strictest in the world. The ruling was enforced in January by the governing right-wing nationalist, populist and pro-Catholic PiS party. A majority of th...
Updated: 13/12/2020 Thousands marched across Warsaw on Sunday to protest against Poland's right-wing government, the latest demonstration after a high court ruling further restricted already tight laws on abortion. Minor scuffles between police and protesters took place near the monument to the Smolensk air disaster in 2010 which killed the country's then-president and scores of other senior Polish officials. Protesters also gathered at a central intersection and began marching to the home of Jarosław Kaczyński, the head of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Kaczyński, who i...