Trzaskowski in Szczecin. "Rafał, slam these elections"

Rafał Trzaskowski, a candidate for the President of the Republic of Poland from the Civic Coalition, spoke in Szczecin about women's rights, proposals for young people and standards of the Western world. On Thursday, he addressed a rally to his supporters gathered at Solidarity Square.

His wife spoke first. Małgorzata Trzaskowska said that she had participated, like many other Polish women, in protests against tightening the abortion law (it was after these protests that support for the Law and Justice government permanently declined - note by AS). She added that, like other Polish women, she had been listed and locked in a police cauldron.

- No one will tell us how to live. Women must decide for themselves - she announced. - Then they will want to start families. Then they will want to have children. This is also what these elections are about.

Women's issues were an important element of Rafał Trzaskowski's speech. The politician recalled that the Civic Coalition was strongly involved in the fight against the "medieval anti-abortion law".

- I will not give up. I will always fight for you to decide about your own life and health - promised the president of Warsaw. - Women's rights also include equal pay, creating appropriate conditions for girls and women to feel safe in their own country. In Warsaw, we succeeded in this - as much as we could. We introduced a program of free nurseries. Thanks to this, many girls and women were able to return to the labor market. When the government took away the in vitro program, we took it over - and over 2 thousand children were born from it.

Rafał Trzaskowski's proposal for seniors - Intergenerational Activity Centers. And for young people - fighting the collapse in psychiatry and housing instead of "PiS's lecturing and indoctrination". The candidate for the President of the Republic of Poland said that in the capital it was possible to create a network of clinics for people in mental crisis and to make 14 thousand apartments available from the city's resources.

- The next generations of Poles, those who fought in the uprisings, workers and shipyard workers who fought in the 70s and 80s against communism, here in Szczecin, here on this square, they dreamed of the West. They dreamed that Poland was part of the West in the sense of belonging to institutions, but part of the West in the mental sense - Rafał Trzaskowski spoke. - I heard that Jarosław Kaczyński was once in the West and he didn't like it. Probably because they speak foreign languages ​​there. I was in the West for the first time shortly after him and I liked it. And I dreamed that Poland would be just like that, that it would be a free, democratic, rich country with free media.

At the same time, the KO representative accused PiS of making deals with parties from other countries that are "either pro-Russian or repeat Russian propaganda." According to him, all of these forces feel bad in Europe.

Rafał Trzaskowski's supporters took up a large part of the square. They had Polish flags, European flags. On one of the banners appeared the inscription "Rafał, slam these elections".

Those who do not like the Civic Coalition candidate also came to the square. Several young men showed a banner with the name of Sławomir Mentzen. Two men raised a banner linking Rafał Trzaskowski with the cleaning of tenement houses in Warsaw. ©℗

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Author of the film: Dariusz Gorajski