Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appeared on British TV on GB News. The law and justice politician spoke about the activities of Donald Tusk's government… Taking over public media.
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“The law is radically violated”
– In Poland there is a radical violation of the law and brutal aggression towards the public media. Donald Tusk could have chosen a very clear legislative path. Instead, he decided to use force to eliminate public media. The last time something like this happened in Poland was during martial law, said Mateusz Morawiecki.
– The takeover of public television is a very bad development of the situation in Poland. I regret this. This is reminiscent of what Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin are doing, which is monopolizing access to information. I don't want to talk about Poland in the context of violation of the constitution, said the former prime minister.
A revolution in public media
In recent weeks, there has been a real revolution in public media. On December 27, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz made a decision to liquidate Polish Television, Polish Radio and the Polish Press Agency. A week earlier, Sienkiewicz dismissed the presidents of TVP, PR and PAP. The new management boards of the companies were elected by the new supervisory boards appointed by the minister.
The National Media Council and the current governing board of media companies consider the actions of Minister Sienkevich illegal. PiS politicians talk about an “attack” on public media, and call the ruling coalition the “Coalition of December 13” (Donald Tusk's government was sworn in on December 13, the anniversary of the introduction of martial law in Poland). Next Thursday, January 11, before the Seimas Law and justice organizes the action In defense of public media, freedom of speech and democracy with the slogan “Protest of free Poles”.
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