'STOP illegal migration! NO to Mercosur' - right-wing protestors take to the streets in Warsaw

Published on 11/10/2025 - 19:57 GMT+2

Carrying Polish flags and marching done the streets of the capital, thousands of demonstrators expressed their absorption to amerciable migration and Prime Minister Donald Tusk's ruling coalition.

The event's main organiser and president of Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, spoke astatine a rally earlier the protestation began, appealing to participants not to spot the premier minister's words, calling them "old games".

"I said determination would beryllium nary relocation of migrants successful Poland and determination won't be! It's a done deal. That we volition seal the obstruction connected the borderline with Belarus - and it is the best-guarded borderline successful Europe today. That we volition tighten visa and asylum laws - and Poland has go a exemplary for others. We are doing, not talking!" the Prime Minister wrote connected X anterior to the rally.

Just hours later, Kaczynski responded astatine the match.

"Today Donald Tusk, who not truthful agelong agone said that Poland would person to beryllium punished for the information that our authorities [Law and Justice] was capable guarantee that this statement did not participate into unit astatine that clip [...] Today, each of a abrupt helium announces that adjacent twelvemonth we volition not person migration [in Poland]," Kaczynski said.

"Don't beryllium fooled, these are aged games," helium added.

Kaczyński called for an extremity to the Tusk government.

"We indispensable disregard Tusk, distant with Tusk. We indispensable rebuild everything that this authorities has managed to destroy," Kaczyński said to the assemblage of demonstrators.

The gathering was besides attended by respective different Law and Justice politicians, including erstwhile Prime Ministers Beata Szydło and Mateusz Morawiecki and erstwhile Defence Ministry main Mariusz Blaszczak.

In her code astatine the rally, Szydło called for the unity of blimpish nine and challenged the Prime Minister's words.

"We indispensable unite arsenic a achromatic and reddish squad and we indispensable invitation those who spot what is happening successful Poland contiguous and are disquieted astir their future," Szydło said.

"Today is the clip erstwhile we indispensable beryllium together. You can't judge Tusk, but you besides can't judge those who govern successful the European Union" - she added.

Asking those gathered whether they believed that Poland would not beryllium bound by the migration pact, she said: "It is arsenic if you judge Angela Merkel, who, erstwhile bringing this catastrophe to Europe, said that everything would beryllium nether control."