In Warsaw today, according to various estimates, from 800.000 to one million Poles came out at the invitation of the opposition and its leader Donald Tusk in the March of Millions of Hearts, a protest against the ruling Pravo i Pravda party, certainly the largest demonstration since the fall of the communists in 1989, bigger than in June when Tusk brought half a million Poles to the streets for a democratic Poland in the European Union.
The city authorities of Warsaw, otherwise in the hands of the opposition, announced that one million people came to the protest, independent media such as the information portal Onet.pl counted about 800.000 according to the area and length of the column, while the authorities and state media only reported an unofficial assessment by the police before the start of the march. that about 100.000 demonstrators had gathered.
"This is an extraordinary event, but it is not a matter of Guinness records. It is not that this is the largest manifestation in the history of Poland, this is certainly the largest political gathering in the world. Europe lives in the hope that Poland will once again become one hundred percent European, democratic , a free country", said former Polish Prime Minister and former President of the European Council Donald Tusk at the end of the march.
The leader of the opposition told the ruling party Pravo i Pravda and its leader Jaroslav Kaczynski, who are today at a pre-election rally far from Warsaw in Katowice, that they fled Warsaw so as not to see what the real Poland looks like and that they remained alone with their hatred, contempt and nepotism.
"I want to promise you the end of the Polish-Polish war the day after the election. When the aggressor is driven away, there is no reason to go to war. For those eight years, they worked to ensure that Poland and the Poles were not Poland, but a lot of small quarreling communities insulting each other. We are the people, we are the great majority, it depends on us to drive them away on December 15," said Donald Tusk.
Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Pravo i Pravda party, Jaroslav Kaczynski, as well as the opposition on the March of Millions of Hearts, tried today in Katowice at a pre-election rally to mobilize his own and undecided voters, stressing like Tusk that these are historic elections, but, in his words, that's why not to return the Tusk system.
"Donald Tusk had to agree that Poland should submit to Germany, and thus to Russia. Tusk performed well there and achieved that goal," said Kaczynski.
For weeks, Pravo i Pravda shows new and new election video clips in which it accuses Tusk of, for example, wanting to hand over half of Poland to Russia because one of the scenarios of the defense strategy counted on the last line of defense on the Vistula, although this strategy was prepared before the resignation of the Kaczynski government.
Other videos scare Poles that Tusk was tasked by Germany to turn the whole of Poland into the island of Lampedusa, which was flooded with refugees and migrants, or that he wanted to sell off strategic companies to foreign owners.
"In the elections on October 15, Poles will not only answer the question of whose Poland will be, but a more important question. Will there be Poland? Will it be a sovereign state. We will answer the question of whether it will be a European province or a sovereign state," he said. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at a meeting in Katowice today.
The ruling Pravo i Pravda party boasted that its rally in one of the sports halls in Katowice was the largest indoor rally in the history of Poland.
According to the latest voter polls, Pravo i Pravda Kačinjski can expect the support of 35 percent of voters, and the opposition gathered in Tusk's Civic Coalition 27 percent, however, support for Kačinjski's only possible partner, the right-wing extremists from the Confederation, is falling and they can currently only count on nine percent. votes.
The parties with which Tusk's pro-European democratic forces could enter the government, the Third Way and the Left, each have 10 percent voter support.
If the brutal campaign full of serious insults, manipulations and lies is not intensified, according to Polish analysts, the country will face a crisis when both blocs have the same number of mandates and hardly anyone can form a government.
How Poland found itself in the center of attention
The campaign of the Pravo i pravda party was marked by anti-immigrant politics. He has been in power since 2015.
Poland, a member of the EU and NATO, found itself in the center of attention of the world public in September after the announcement that it would stop supplying weapons to Ukraine due to a diplomatic dispute over grain.
The grain dispute began after Russia's invasion of Ukraine completely closed the main Black Sea shipping lanes and forced Ukraine to find alternative land routes.
This in turn led to large quantities of grain ending up in Central Europe.
Consequently, the EU temporarily banned grain imports in five countries, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, to protect local farmers, who feared that Ukrainian grain was undercutting prices locally.
The ban expired on September 15 and the EU decided not to renew it, but Hungary, Slovakia and Poland decided to continue applying it.
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