{"id":2868,"date":"2024-10-14T16:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2024-10-14T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:42:24","slug":"polish-democracy-leader-lech-walesa-says-a-trump-victory-would-be-a-misfortune-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/polish-democracy-leader-lech-walesa-says-a-trump-victory-would-be-a-misfortune-for-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish democracy leader Lech Walesa says a Trump victory would be a &#8216;misfortune&#8217; for the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WARSAW, Poland (AP) \u2014 Polish democracy champion and former President Lech Walesa says a victory by Republican Donald Trump in this year&#8217;s U.S. presidential election would bring \u201cmisfortune\u201d to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Walesa said in a short entry on Facebook on Sunday that he does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, but that the matter \u201cis too important for the world\u201d for him to withhold his views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deeply believe that Americans will vote responsibly. In my opinion, I am completely convinced that Trump\u2019s election WOULD BE A MISFORTUNE FOR THE U.S. AND THE WORLD,\u201d he wrote, using all capital letters.<\/p>\n<p>He did not explain his thinking further.<\/p>\n<p>Walesa, 81, played a historic role as leader of Solidarity, a labor union that advocated for workers&#8217; rights and greater freedoms during the 1980s, when Poland was still under Soviet-backed communist rule.<\/p>\n<p>He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his defense of workers&#8217; rights and universal freedoms more broadly. Solidarity ended up playing a crucial role in the peaceful collapse of communism.<\/p>\n<p>Walesa went on to serve one term as president of Poland.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW, Poland (AP) \u2014 Polish democracy champion and former President Lech Walesa says a victory by Republican Donald Trump in this year&#8217;s U.S. presidential election would bring \u201cmisfortune\u201d to the world. Walesa said in a short entry on Facebook on Sunday that he does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, but that<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump-election-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/4f9eSFdxh9EqJvYOrqtllg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MzY-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ap.org\/51f71a889c1f9cce77c7a614f0d96349","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}