Duda calls for referendum on constitution

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said that he wants to ask the nation next year, whether it wants to change its 20-year old constitution, without proposing any changes at this moment. “It's time for a serious constitutional debate, not just with politicians but with the whole of the nation,” Duda said. Duda added that he wanted Poland to be a place "where there are no unfounded privileges, where there are no better castes of citizens, where all citizens are united." Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński has long said he wants a new constitution, since the current one, “entrenched privileges of ex-communists in the social structure.” Poland’s opposition has called this move, the “latest attempt to move toward a more authoritarian political system.