Polish opposition head Donald Tusk leads march to boost chances to unseat conservatives in election
Polish opposition head Donald Tusk leads march to boost chances to unseat conservatives in election
Opposition leader Donald Tusk is leading a march in Poland's capital to mobilize supporters and boost his coalition's chances of unseating the conservative government in an upcoming parliamentary election.
Opposition leader Donald Tusk told supporters that political “change for the better is inevitable” in Poland as he opened a massive march Sunday to try to boost his political coalition’s chances of unseating the country’s conservative government in an upcoming parliamentary election.
“No one can stop this force; this giant has awoken,” Tusk told huge crowds gathered in the center of Warsaw two weeks before the Oct. 15 election. “Let no one among the ruling team have any illusions: This change for the better is inevitable.”
His Civic Coalition is vowing to mend ties with the European Union, which has had strained relations with Poland during the eight years the Law and Justice party has governed the country. Tusk spent five years as president of the European Council after serving seven years as Poland’s prime minister.
The four-party coalition also has pledged to pursue more tolerant policies than the nationalist government led by Law and Justice.
“Conservatives” (just want in fuck’s name have they conserved?) are a goddamn cancer on the world.
Conservative is code for authoritarian. They hate others and want to control them. They conserve their own at the expense of everyone else.
More like Degressives.
More like degenerates
Regressive is a word, y'know. But I prefer “reactionary”
Conservatives in pretty much every country are a cancer. They definitely are in Canada.
Depends on if they're politicians or voters.
For the politicians, it usually means conserving public funds so they can hand out tax breaks and bailouts to the wealthy. Occasionally it means conserving the status quo which in turn conserves their reactionary voting bloc.
For those voters, it usually means conserving their own way of life, no matter how unhealthy or bigoted, no matter how small a change it would be for them nor large a positive impact for others.
Of course, it's only a tiny jump from "conservation" to greed.
If you're carefully rationing out food to get through a scarcity, that's conserving food.
If you're rationing out other people's food so that scarcity never touches your family, that's just greed.
But unless you're invited to dine with them, you'll never know which it was.
Looks like Elon Tusk and Trump had a son
A walrus, though?
Elon... Tusk?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Opposition leader Donald Tusk told supporters that political “change for the better is inevitable” in Poland as he opened a massive march Sunday to try to boost his political coalition’s chances of unseating the country’s conservative government in an upcoming parliamentary election.
“No one can stop this force; this giant has awoken,” Tusk told huge crowds gathered in the center of Warsaw two weeks before the Oct. 15 election.
His Civic Coalition is vowing to mend ties with the European Union, which has had strained relations with Poland during the eight years the Law and Justice party has governed the country.
Thousands of supporters arrived on buses provided for them from across Poland to take part in the “March of a Million Hearts.” Police closed some downtown streets for the 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) walk.
Marchers interviewed by Polish news channel TVN24 said they were taking part in the interest of their children, grandchildren, women and LGBTQ+ people whom they want to live in a modern, tolerant and European Poland.
Tusk, 66, returned to Polish politics several years ago, seeking to breathe new life into his languishing Civic Platform party and to reverse what many view as a degradation of fundamental rights under the Law and Justice-led government.
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Just a reminder - these guys ruled for two terms before and they didn't do shit.
This is like the Democrats in the US - the only good thing about them is that they're not the other guys.
Do we need constant change?
In that way PiS did A LOT as they changed (without bigger thought) personal tax system making year with changes like a ride on roller coaster. I just prefer "not doing shit" then. But PO did a lot of things during their time, and most important - the state of economy was good.
Also they did few unpopular decisions and, even being young (so most affected) - change of retirement age was really good and still needed. We're aging society, we live longer than current age was set, etc.
Yes, we need change in poland. Badly.
This is a crumbling country where all social services have been cut down so much that using them is pretty much impossible unless you have connections. LGBTQ people are discriminated against. Same with refugees and women. The wealth disparity between rich and poor is the biggest in the EU. People have to work multiple shitty jobs and theyre still poor. This has been happenning since the early 90s.
PO ruled for many years. Not only did they not fix any of the aforementioned issues - they made them worse. Do I have to remind you when the PO president told a man that was complaining of poverty to "change his job and take a loan"? Neoliberals are the scourge of this earth.
