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'Sovereign, free, democratic Poland is our aim': ruling party chief

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Grzegorz Siwicki 11.12.2017 11:00
A “sovereign, free, democratic, respected and fair Poland is our aim,” the leader of the country’s ruling conservatives has said.
Jarosław Kaczyński speaks during the monthly "March of Remembrance” in Warsaw on Sunday evening. Photo: PAP/Paweł SupernakJarosław Kaczyński speaks during the monthly "March of Remembrance” in Warsaw on Sunday evening. Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak

“This aim will be achieved already within the lifetime of this generation. We will win,” Jarosław Kaczyński said on Sunday.

Kaczyński, who heads Poland's governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, was speaking during a monthly "March of Remembrance” that was held in Warsaw for the 92nd time to commemorate the victims of a fatal Polish presidential plane crash on April 10, 2010.

Sunday marked 92 months since the plane carrying President Lech Kaczyński, his wife and 94 others – including top political and military figures – crashed near Smolensk, western Russia.

The event is commemorated monthly in Warsaw with a Catholic Mass and a procession to the Presidential Palace.

Jarosław Kaczyński, twin brother of the late president, on Sunday said that the monthly marches would continue until monuments to the Smolensk disaster victims are erected in Warsaw on the eighth anniversary of the crash.

Kaczyński said: "We are getting closer... Today we are sure it is only going to take a few more months before the monuments are erected and a report of the Smolensk commission is released."

PiS has long challenged an official report into the crash issued by the previous Polish government which cited a catalogue of errors on the Polish side, while also pointing to errors made by Russian staff at the control tower of Smolensk Military Airport.

A Russian report placed all the blame on the Poles.

PiS has launched its own inquiry into the crash which, in initial findings, suggested the plane was probably destroyed by a mid-air explosion, and that Russian air traffic controllers deliberately misled the Polish pilots about their location as the presidential plane approached the runway of the Smolensk military airport in 2010.

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