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Tue 02 Feb 2009Ganley launches European campaign in Poland
LIBERTAS HAS launched its campaign to contest the European parliamentary elections in Poland in an alliance with extreme-right, populist, ultra-Catholic parties.
Libertas founder Declan Ganley told a rally of around 700 people there were parallels between the upcoming European election, Polish resistance against the Nazis and the 1683 battle of Vienna, when Poles turned back Ottoman army. But leading political analysts in Warsaw predicted that the presence of Libertas candidates in Poland’s EU election will be of “no significance”.
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