The revolution in public media began on December 20. Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz dismissed the presidents of Polish Television, Polish Radio and the Polish Press Agency. The new management boards of the companies were elected by the new supervisory boards appointed by the minister. Less than an hour after the announcement of the Ministry of Culture, TVP Info and TVP3 stopped broadcasting (instead, TVP1 and TVP2 started broadcasting). A few minutes later, the station's website also disappeared. On December 27, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage decided to liquidate them
In the end, it turned out that the experts who pointed to the suspicious nature of the new government's actions were right, because The National Court Registry refused to register new members of Telewizja Polska's Supervisory Board The Minister of Culture, Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, and Tomasz Sigut appointed him as the president of the company.
The National Council of the Judiciary rejects another request of the government
In turn, on Friday, the Warsaw court rejected the application to enter the new management of Polish Radio into the national court register. The Referendum referred to the 1995 decision of the Constitutional Tribunal in its reasoning, which states that “the principle of independence of public radio and television broadcasting takes a clear form when its position in relation to the government and its subordinate structures is considered. .”
“The essence of the 1992 reform was to turn government radio and television into public broadcasters. The purpose of the specific regulation was to separate radio and television from the government and its associated parliamentary majority in order to prevent these media. Mass media as a political instrument of governance. This order to maintain internal pluralism in public radio and television programs can be implemented only if they maintain a clear dissonance from the current political administrator,” said the justification quoted with emphasis. Onet portal.
The court's referendum also recalled the Constitutional Tribunal's 2016 ruling on the unconstitutionality of the exclusion of the National Broadcasting Council from the procedure for appointing the authority of TVP and Polish Radio.
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