Biedroń launches new party
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Former MP and President of Słupsk, Robert Biedroń launched his new, liberal party Wiosna (Spring) at the inaugural convention in Warsaw on Sunday.
“The last years were cold and gloomy. Instead of conversations, we got constant conflict; instead of the good of the community, party interests. Let this finally come to an end. We need a spring that will renew this gloomy landscape,” he said.
Biedroń wants to present himself as an alternative to both ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) and opposition centrist Civic Platform (PO). “In recent years we had a really tough choice. On one hand, we had the politics of statistics and economic indicators. On the other hand, we had a grotesque caricature of democracy, with constitutional breaches, limitations on women’s rights, and propaganda instead of public media,” he said and added that “they’ve all let us down.”
Biedroń also announced the main pillars of his political agenda.
He wants to phase out the country’s coal production by 2035, end teaching religion in public schools and liberalize the country’s restrictive abortion laws by giving women the right to terminate a pregnancy until the 12th week. “Poland is a woman. Her suffering is our suffering,” he said.
