On Sunday, “Rzeczpospolita” published the results of the SW Research agency's research on its website. Its participants were asked: “What do you think about how Donald Tusk's government decided to take control of public media (including TVP)?”
41.3 percent of the respondents chose the answer “positively”, and 35 percent – “negatively”. 20.5 percent of the respondents have no opinion on this issue and 3.2 percent have not heard about it at all.
The survey was conducted among SW Panel online panel users on December 27-29, 2023. The analysis included a group of 800 Internet users over the age of 18. The sample was selected by random quota.
TVP, Polskie Radio and PAP went into liquidation
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage announced in December that the head of the ministry, Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, dismissed the current presidents of Telewizja Polska, Polish Radio and the Polish Board of Governors, citing a Sejm resolution and the Code of Commercial Companies. Press agency, as well as supervisory boards. The minister appointed new supervisory boards of the companies, which appointed new management boards.
After Christmas, Sienkiewicz decided to put TVP, PR and PAP in charge state of liquidation. He justified his decision by vetoing President Andrzej Duda's budget act, which included funds for financing public media.
RMN: Sienkiewicz's actions are illegal. PiS organizes a march to protect public media
The National Media Council and the current governing board of media companies consider the actions of the Minister of Culture illegal. PiS politicians talk about an “attack” on public media, and the ruling coalition is called the “Coalition of December 13” (Donald Tusk's government was sworn in on December 13, the anniversary of the introduction of martial law).
Next Thursday, January 11, “Law and Justice” is organizing a march in front of the Sejm to defend public media, freedom of speech and democracy, with the slogan “Protest of free Poles”.