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"We must put a stop to further degradation that is leading Poland towards authoritarianism:" Nobel laureate urges Polish opposition to commit to progressive causes (www.theguardian.com)

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"We as citizens will need to be assured that a new government would have faith in democracy, Europeanism and freedom guaranteed by law,” Olga Tokarczuk’s says two weeks before Poland goes to the polls in a potentially pivotal election on 15 October.

"We need assurances that such a government would listen to us and respond to our needs, and not, like the present one, subordinate the majority of citizens to anachronistic ‘traditional values’ adhered to only by a 30% minority,”

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[–] ProcurementCat@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

Taking over the judiciary with a clearly anti-democratic intent, and violating democratic standards of both, the EU and polish constitution, is not "democracy" (as you say) anymore.

No matter how much you want to wank over "traditional values", an anti-democratic party ruling is not democracy and nobody has to be content with that - in fact, it's democratic obligation to oppose exactly this.