{"id":318393,"date":"2017-07-22T00:24:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T23:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/polish-government-slams-anti-democratic-protests-as-parliament-votes-on-judicial-reform\/"},"modified":"2017-07-22T00:24:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T23:24:46","slug":"polish-government-slams-anti-democratic-protests-as-parliament-votes-on-judicial-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/polish-government-slams-anti-democratic-protests-as-parliament-votes-on-judicial-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Government Slams Anti-Democratic Protests as Parliament Votes on Judicial Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Poland&#8217;s New Govt Is Trying To Undo Communist Legacies \u2013 The EU Is Trying To Stop It <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lbsYtFzO08\">https:\/\/t.co\/lbsYtFzO08<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/97tqlvWFV3\">pic.twitter.com\/97tqlvWFV3<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/714481939059638272\">March 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Slamming those organising and taking part in the demonstrations, Polish parliamentary Commission on Justice and Human Rights chief and Stanis\u0142aw Piotrowicz told Polish television the protest was hypocritical,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpolityce.pl\/polityka\/349777-stanislaw-piotrowicz-w-studiu-wpolscepl-wygralismy-wybory-bo-deklarowalismy-gleboka-reforme-wymiaru-sprawiedliwosci-robimy-to-wideo\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>\u00a0wPolityce.<\/p>\n<p>Piotrowicz said those standing against the government \u201ccannot accept the fact that PiS was given a democratic mandate from the electorate. They do not want to legitimise democratic elections\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>PiS won the first parliamentary majority of any party in modern Polish political history in 2015.\u00a0Pointing out the significant mandate this landslide gave his party,\u00a0Piotrowicz pointed out the government had \u201cwon the election because we had promised a deep reform of the judiciary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThis [policy] can\u2019t have come as a surprise. I would understand the indignation of the opposition if we had said everything was perfect with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/polish-government-slams-anti-democratic-protests-as-parliament-votes-on-judicial-reform\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}