Iwona Hartwich speaks during an interview with Reuters at her home in Torun, Poland October 22, 2019. Picture taken October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
TORUN, Poland/WARSAW (Reuters) - Iwona Hartwich was banned from Poland's parliament after camping out for weeks in a corridor last year demanding more state support for disabled people. This week she walked into the building to collect her certificate of election.
She recalls a sense of disbelief when she became one of a handful of activists to win seats in the Oct. 13 vote, in which the ruling Law & Justice party (PiS) was reelected.
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