Partycypacja protestu podczas pandemii COVID-19 w wybranych polskich miastach

The aim of the article is to present the use of the social participation tool, which is a protest in the form of a public assembly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The following research hypothesis was put forward: if citizens express their objections in the form of protests in the urban municipality, their main addressee is the central government, not the local authorities. Research questions focused on the decline in public gatherings and new protests emerging during the pandemic. Four cities were selected for the research: Wrocław, Gdańsk, Lublin and Katowice. In the article was used the institutional-legal, comparative and content analysis methods. The literature on the subject, data from the Public Information Bulletin (BIP) and press articles in the years 2020-2021 were analyzed. The results of the research confirm that the number of assemblies in the analyzed period did not drop significantly, and the protests were largely nationwide rather than local.