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malaise

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Sat Sep 14, 2013, 09:20 PM Sep 2013

Look at those anti--government protests in Poland

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/09/201391413554937558.html
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Tens of thousands of Polish labour union members have marched through the capital, Warsaw, in the finale of a four-day protest against the government.

The demonstrators threw smoke grenades and blew whistles as they marched to the historic Castle Square with banners saying, "Tusk's government must go," referring to Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Saturday's protest reflects widespread public gloom over this year's sharp economic slowdown in Poland, which has been dragged down by the eurozone crisis.

The disillusionment has plunged the coalition government's popularity to its lowest level since Tusk, Poland's longest-serving prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989, took office in 2007.
"We want the departure of Donald Tusk. This is the only way to change social policy in Poland," Marek Lewandowski, spokesman for the Polish trade union federation Solidarity, told the AFP news agency.
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