Marchers protest against month-old Polish conservative government appointing five of 15 judges to highest judicial bodyTens of thousands of people marched through Warsaw on Saturday to protest against what they called the “democratorship” of the month-old conservative government,as Poland remained locked in a constitutional crisis. Waving Polish and European Union flags, the protesters chanted: “We want the structure, and not a revolution”,demanding that the government respect the rule of law. The constitutional clash began when the Eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party, which scored a landmark election win in October, and appointed five out of 15 judges to the highest judicial body,in a stir that the opposition described as illegal.
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Source: theguardian.com