Donald Tusk Invites to March in 2027, Proposes Mazowiecki Monument

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced plans for a "Great Patriots' March" to take place in Warsaw on June 4, 2027. This date marks the anniversary of the first partially free parliamentary elections in Poland in 1989, which led to the fall of communism.

The planned march will proceed past the site of a proposed monument to Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who served as the last prime minister of the Polish People's Republic and the first prime minister of the post-communist Third Polish Republic. Tusk suggested the monument be erected in front of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

To commemorate Mazowiecki's upcoming 100th birthday and the significance of the 1989 elections, Tusk extended an invitation to all former Polish prime ministers to join the Honorary Committee for the Monument's Construction. In a post on X, he playfully questioned whether Jarosław Kaczyński would decline such an invitation.

This initiative follows a series of similar patriotic marches organized by various political factions in Poland. Notably, a "Great Patriots' March" was held in May 2025, supporting Rafał Trzaskowski's presidential bid, with Tusk and other government officials participating. The opposition PiS party organized its own "Great March for Poland" during that period. Previously, the Civic Platform (KO), then in opposition, organized an anti-government "June 4th March" before the 2023 parliamentary elections, and the "March of a Million Hearts" took place in October 2023.