Community looks tentatively to future as party that sought to demonise them is unlikely to retain power
or the past eight years, fear and anxiety has threaded through much of Bart Staszewski’s daily life. As a gay man living in, he found himself increasingly under attack by a government that had sought to depict the LGBTQ+ community as a threat to the nation and its children, fuelling prejudices and hate crimes across the country.for opposition parties, Staszewski has been gripped by a wave of relief. “It’s like I’m breathing fresh air for the first time in eight years,” he said.
For the Ocalenie Foundation, a Polish NGO that helps refugees and migrants build a new life in Poland, the election results came as a welcome surprise. “But I wouldn’t say that we’re ecstatic,” said Kalina Czwarnóg, a board member. Since 2021, the situation on the border has been dire as thousands of asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan and other countries have found themselves trapped in one of Europe’s last primeval forests, with no food or shelter to protect them when temperatures begin to plunge.
“We felt like there was no way to advance, we needed to get back to square one and protect the fundamental freedoms we thought were sorted out 30 years ago,” she continued.
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