The Lower House will send the four proposals presented by the Government's partners to a special commission. Pro-choice activists welcomed the vote with great celebration in the halls of the House.
In 2020, the Constitutional Court, at the request of the ultra-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), declared abortion illegal also in case of malformation of the fetus. Poland thus became one of the most restrictive countries in the European Union, only after Malta. In the regional and local elections last Sunday, the government, which has arrived at the polls divided over this and other issues, has received its first wake-up call from the electorate, writes Wojciech Szczesny, an analyst at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Warsaw, in a letter to EL PAÍS. The parties that govern the country today came to power last December with the impetus of women, he writes, and they will turn words into actions in the October 2023 elections. In 1993, the country had just a strong left behind, with a strong involvement of the Church in the process, which gave in to the demands of the Catholic hierarchy, he adds.