Poland opposition party leads anti-government march

Participants join an anti-government march led by the centrist opposition party leader Donald Tusk in Warsaw, Poland (Czarek Sokolowski/AP/PA)

Poland’s largest opposition party led a march on Sunday aimed at mobilising voters against the right-wing government, which it accuses of eroding democracy and following Hungary and Turkey down the path to autocracy.

The local government in Warsaw estimated that 500,000 people joined the march, which was led by the opposition party to which the city’s mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski, belongs. It was not possible to verify that figure.