Polish president wants referendum on constitution in 2018
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Poland's president says he wants the country to hold a referendum next year on possible changes to the nation's 20-year-old constitution.
President Andrzej Duda, who hails from the ruling conservative Law and Justice party, spoke Wednesday, on the national Constitution Day holiday.
Duda says he wants Poland to be a place "where there are no unfounded privileges, where there are no better castes of citizens, where all citizens are united."
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Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has long said he wants a new constitution. Kaczynski says the current one, which went into force eight years after communism's collapse, entrenched privileges of ex-communists in the social structure.
Political opponents denounced the plan for the 2018 referendum as an attempt to move toward a more authoritarian political system.