Under the banner Protest of the Free Poles, opponents of the Polish government gathered Tuesday evening in front of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Office in Gdańsk. The demonstration was organized by Pomeranian politicians affiliated with Law and Justice, drawing several hundred participants who waved white and red flags and carried banners bearing bold messages such as This is Poland, not Brussels, Stop the destruction of Poland, and There will be a bunk bed for Sienkiewicz. Attribution: wPolityce.
Participants saw the event as a stand against current developments in public life and as opposition to the government led by Donald Tusk. The gathering was framed as a call for a politics backed by shared values of justice and national sovereignty, contrasting with what speakers described as external influence or interference from the European Union. Attribution: PAP.
– Kacper Płażyński, a member of Parliament from Law and Justice, spoke against the direction of politics and the current administration. Attribution: PAP.
We want a strong, independent Poland, one that does not bow to external interests or to the European Union, he stated. Attribution: PAP.
High attendance
Przemysław Majewski, a Law and Justice councilor on the Gdańsk City Council, noted that hundreds participated in the protest. Attribution: PAP.
The councilor emphasized that the demonstration signaled a broader concern about the alleged takeover of public media and about policies regarding migration and the European treaty framework. He argued these issues affect all Poles, making public expression essential to register disagreement. Attribution: PAP.
Majewski added that the protest was intended to be cyclical, with a planned culmination on January 11 in Warsaw. Attribution: PAP.
On December 22, PiS spokesman Rafał Bochenek announced the protest titled Protest of the Free Poles, scheduled for January 11 in Warsaw. The message called on all Poles who value freedom to participate, with Free Poles said to be protesting in front of the Sejm against what the organizers described as a dictatorship of violence and violations of the law by the Tusk government and the Sejm coalition. Attribution: PAP.
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Based on coverage from wPolityce, the event was framed as a unified display of popular will and concern over national policy directions. Attribution: wPolityce.