A senior Polish government spokesman has accused protesters blocking streets in Warsaw on Thursday and Friday of not respecting democracy, noting that the Law and Justice Party (PiS) government was elected with a mandate to enact the very reforms being protested.
Despite polls showing a majority of Poles believe judicial reform is needed, the protests have gone ahead and have been extremely well covered by European media.
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Slamming those organising and taking part in the demonstrations, Polish parliamentary Commission on Justice and Human Rights chief and Stanisław Piotrowicz told Polish television the protest was hypocritical, reports wPolityce.
Piotrowicz said those standing against the government “cannot accept the fact that PiS was given a democratic mandate from the electorate. They do not want to legitimise democratic elections”.
PiS won the first parliamentary majority of any party in modern Polish political history in 2015. Pointing out the significant mandate this landslide gave his party, Piotrowicz pointed out the government had “won the election because we had promised a deep reform of the judiciary.”
He added: “This [policy] can’t have come as a surprise. I would understand the indignation of the opposition if we had said everything was perfect with…