Sounds strange?It did to me and I did not know what to think about it…

A number of small demonstrations took place across the country last Wednesday as groups of people hit the streets to show their discontent for Donald Tusk and his coalition government.

The so-called ‘Day of Anger’ (‘Dzień Gniewu’), promoted on various internet sites such as Facebook, urged people to join the protests which took place in several Polish cities including Warsaw,Łódź, Kraków, Wrocław and Poznań.

Using a mixture of anti-government chants (antyrządowe okrzyki), banners (banery) and burning effigies (palenie kukły) of the Prime Minister, demonstrators rallied against a number of current issues such as the ACTA agreement, the recent signing of the EU fiscal pact and plans to raise the retirement age to 67.

However, despite much promotion on the social networking site – which used the slogan ‘PO and PSL cabinet, the government of incompetence, the government of defeat, confusion and lies’ – the event failed to attract the same numbers as January’s ACTA demonstrations.

Several hundred gathered in the capital, while cities like Katowice, Bielsko-Biala and Gdańsk witnessed over 100 people each. One of the poorest attendances was in Krakow, which reportedly saw only a dozen or so people turn up.

So don’t worry, it is not a national holiday in Polish calendar….just recent news.

Do następnego razu… (Till next time…)