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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Polish election: Tusk party urged to show it is not ‘deceiving women’ on abortion

Natalia Broniarczyk, left, with Manon Aubry holding sweatshirts with slogans 'abortion is normal' and 'fuck for fun'
Natalia Broniarczyk, left, a Polish pro-choice activist, with Manon Aubry from La France Insoumise, with clothes to be sold to raise money for Poland’s abortion consultation centre. Photograph: Wojtek Radwański/AFP/Getty

Poland’s presidential elections are a “historic, groundbreaking” chance for Donald Tusk’s centrist party to show it was not trying to “deceive women” when it promised to change some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, campaigners have said.

Voters across Poland will head to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the elections to replace Andrzej Duda, the current president who is aligned with the former rightwing government and has veto power over legislation.

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