Support for the Polish ruling Law and Justice Party has fallen since the ruling on stricter abortion rules. It shows a new opinion poll.
At the same time, the nationwide protests continue, which today enter their twelfth day.
The demonstrators do not mince words when they take to the streets today for the twelfth day in a row to demonstrate against the new abortion rules.
– This is a war, it is the women’s revolution, Law and Justice can go to hell, are some of the messages that are on the posters. Many adorned with the red flash that has become a symbol of the protests. The protests described as the largest since Poland became a democracy in 1991.
But the government and the Catholic Church defends the Constitutional Court’s decision to ban abortions, even of injured fetuses. The hitherto most common cause of abortions legally in Poland.
– I think it’s a shame to hear such vulgar words and expressions. What will happen to these children and young people, said one of the most prominent priests in Poland, Tadeusz Rydzyk, about the protests, to the Catholic radio station Radio Maryia.
The government is also critical of the protests, that protesters are defying the restrictions, in Poland which has among the highest infection rates in Europe right now.
But the government does not seem to support their line. According to a new opinion poll commissioned by the Polish newspaper Жечпосполита Rzeczpospolita, support for the ruling Law and Justice Party has fallen by almost 10 percentage points.
At the same time, 70 percent of those polled say they are dissatisfied with how the party’s leader and Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has handled the issue.
Source: ICELAND NEWS