Elections in three days, so supporters of individual candidates intensify their support for them in social media – often publishing fake news. This is how it is with a poster encouraging to vote for Karol Nawrocki.
Author of published on May 11 on the website x post He encourages: “All of Poland against the leftist @trzaskowski_ vote wisely so as not to wake up in rainbow Poland -18.05.2025 and 01.06.2025 Great mobilization of chase we will be leftist evil. The Pole votes for a Pole” (original spelling). The poster attached to the entry encouraging to vote for Karol Nawrocki to illustrate the scale of support for the PiS candidate. This is a photo from some demonstration taken from a bird's eye view (not signed neither the author nor the source) – you can see a huge crowd of people, which gathered at the intersection of Aleja Jerozolimskie and Marszałkowska Street at the Dmowski roundabout in Warsaw. And the slogan says: “Patriots behind Nawrocki”. Under it is information: “Download the overlay” and reference to the website where you can do it. The post generated over 240,000 in four days. views; It was given further over 400 times; It liked over 1.2 thousand users.
The post with a manipulative photo had over 240,000 viewsx.com
However, many Internet users quickly noticed that the photo is not “patriots”, which the author of the entry probably writes about – and they began to straighten it. “It's a strike against PiS”; “This photo is from a demonstration against such popters like you or Batyr”; “You couldn't steal worse, sheep”; “You like this Nawrocki – you will even steal a photo,” they commented.
Not the voters of Nawrocki, but the participants of the Women's Strike
Indeed, a photo on a poster showing “Patriots behind Nawrocki” comes from a women's strike. This group of protesters at the time in the center of Warsaw is unlikely to be a supporter of PiS, in any case they were not at the time of the United Right.
The National Women's Strike organized anti -government protests from October 22, 2020. They were a response to the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal under the leadership of Julia Przyłębska, who considered abortion in the event of severe or irreversible fetal damage to the constitution. Protests took place in various cities and towns of Poland. One of the more numerous ran on October 30, 2020. At that time, the culmination of strikes from that day was organized in the capital – a manifestation under the slogan “Everyone to Warsaw”.
That's right events The photo used manipulatively by the Internet user comes. They were made by Dariusz Borowicz, he was published by “Gazeta Wyborcza” in article from October 30, 2020 “One hundred thousand at the Women's Strike March. Blocked Warsaw. Race and firecrackers flew.” “A photo of a wide crowd taken by our reporter Dariusz Borowicz from the Palace of Culture is impressive,” it was written. The photo also illustrated article “Thousands of Poles punished and brought by courts. Balance of repression after a year of protests on abortion” of October 22, 2021.
Women's strike protest on Friday, October 30, 2020Dariusz Borowicz / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
It is hard to believe that the crowd shown in this photograph should support the PiS candidate Karol Nawrocki. The strikes were an expression of the opposition of Polish women and Poles towards the United Right and PiS policy towards women.
Source of the main photo: Dariusz Borowicz / Agencja Wyborcza.pl