Poland's opposition supporters mass in Warsaw two weeks before election

Opposition leader Donald Tusk told supporters that political "change for the better is inevitable” in Poland at a massive march on Sunday.

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00:00 Hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters marched through Warsaw on Sunday, just two

00:04 weeks before a crucial parliamentary election. Opposition leader Donald Tusk, who was once

00:09 the European Council President, is trying to get rid of the controversial nationalist

00:14 government that's been eroding the rule of law. After it was found to be limiting the

00:18 independence of its judges, the EU has been fining Poland half a million euros every day.

00:24 The ruling Law and Justice Party has also interfered with state media to ensure it mostly

00:30 promotes the government's views. And it's promoted populist policies, such as demanding

00:36 Germany pay reparations for atrocities committed in World War II. Recent surveys suggest the

00:42 opposition's electoral alliance is a few percentage points behind Law and Justice. But Donald

00:47 Tusk says he thinks the wider opposition could defeat the ruling party and former government,

00:52 and at the start of the march he greeted leaders of the centrist Third Way Party.

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