Last Sunday in Parliamentary elections, Poland re-elected Prime Minister Donald Tusk who, according to
AP, is holding coalition talks with the small Polish People's Party. The surprise, however, was the third-place showing of a new party, Palikot Movement (Movement of Support), which received 10% of the vote. According to
CNS, the Palikot Movement campaigned against Catholic Church involvement in the Polish government:
The movement's leader, millionaire businessman Janusz Palikot, accused the church of "taking sides in politics," and said religious symbols had been "used disgracefully for political struggles."
He added that Poland needed "defending against Catholicism, not Catholicism against Poland," and said his first moves would include securing the removal of a cross from the Sejm, Poland's lower legislative chamber.
Poland's Catholic bishops reacted angrily to calls for religion to be less present in public life.
