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Hundreds of thousands of people attended an opposition rally in Warsaw today, two weeks before parliamentary elections, which the liberal Political Platform (PO) says could determine Poland's future in the European Union and its democratic status.
Polls show the government of the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party is likely to win the election but may struggle to secure a majority amid discontent over rising living costs and concerns about the erosion of democratic checks and balances.
Warsaw Municipality reported that around one million people attended the largest rally ever held in the capital. Public broadcaster TVP, which independent media observers say is back under PiS rule, reported that 100,000 people attended.
Online news network onet.pl reported that an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people attended the rally. Some carried placards with slogans such as "PiSexit" or "The cat can stay", a reference to PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski's pet.
"I want to show you how we are over a million," Donald Tusk, former prime minister and leader of PO, told the protesters. He claimed it was "the biggest political demonstration in the history of Poland" and "the biggest political rally in the world today". "We are Poland", he said at the end of this "march of a million hearts", as he called it, during which a dense crowd filled the main streets of the capital.
Attacking PiS, he said that "Poland deserves better, I am convinced that Poland deserves the best". "We are here to win in the October 15 elections," Tusk added, while protesters chanted "We will win!".
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