All opposition parties have ruled out working with the ruling PiS party, which lost its parliamentary majority at last month’s elections.
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Polish opposition groups sign agreement setting out programme for future coalition government
Among their pledges are reversing PiS’s judicial reforms, overturning the near-total abortion ban, depoliticising public media, and separating church and state.
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