WARSAW (Sputnik) — Hundreds of protesters blocked a car of Polish ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Parliament Deputy Speaker Ryszard Terlecki, as large-scale protests have swept the country amid planned media restrictions in the parliament, local media reported Sunday.
The protesters gathered outside the Wawel royal castle in Poland’s southern city of Krakow to block the way of Kaczynski, who was on the way to visit the grave of his brother and former Polish President Lech Kaczynski, killed in a plane crash near Smolensk in 2010, according to the TVN24 television channel.
The crowd chanted "Shame!" while some people tried to talk to the parliament speaker through the open window of the car, the television channel said.
17 December 2016, 18:44 GMT
On Saturday, demonstrators protested in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw in what became the biggest political standoff between the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) and several opposition groups. Thousands of people gathered in support of opposition Civic Platform party lawmakers who disrupted the parliamentary session a day earlier in protest of a decision to restrict media access to the Sejm.
The new media restrictions would allow only a limited number of TV stations in Poland to record parliamentary sessions starting next year.
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