100,000 gather in Polish unions' anti-government protest

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One hundred thousand angry Polish trade unionists marched through Warsaw Saturday in the finale of a four-day protest against the unpopular and increasingly fragile centre-right government.

The protest reflects widespread public gloom over a sharp economic slowdown in Poland, which has sent the coalition's popularity plunging to its lowest level since Prime Minister Donald Tusk took office in 2007.

Marek Lewandowski, spokesman for Poland's iconic right-of-centre Solidarity trade union, told AFP: "We want the departure of Donald Tusk. This is the only way to change social policy in Poland."

Union members, including coal miners, railway, steel and health workers among others, descended on Warsaw from across the country.

Clad in hard hats and brandishing union flags they blared sirens, beat drums, blew whistles and stalled traffic as they marched through th

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