The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage announced before Christmas that the head of the ministry, Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, dismissed the current presidents of Telewizja Polska, Polish Radio and the Board of Directors of Polish Radio, based on a resolution of the Sejm and the Code of Commercial Companies. Polish Press Agency, as well as Supervisory Boards. The minister appointed new supervisory boards of the companies, which appointed new management boards. After that, Sienkiewicz decided to liquidate TVP, PR and PAP. He justified his decision by vetoing President Andrzej Duda's budget act, which included funds for financing public media.
National Media Council and current governing boards of media companies He considers the actions of Minister Sienkevich 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).
Taking over public media. Ziemkiewicz and Lisicki comment
In the last episode of the program “Polska Do Rzeczy”, Pawel Lisicki and Rafal Ziemkiewicz talked about the forceful takeover of public media. – Everything indicates that the defenders of democracy have taken the public media by storm, and the Polish people will be able to understand what the democratic, democratically victorious government has to say, – mocked the editor-in-chief of “Do Rzecz”.
– I would say that now they have captured ashes and ruins. So much so that “New Year's Eve with Two”, which was the most watched for years, lost more than 1.5 million viewers and New Year's Eve won on Polsat. This neo-TVP info also has a viewership of 30%. previous. The program “19:30”, which replaced “Wiadomości”, is such rubbish that even the local TV station did not broadcast it. However, you can finally watch films banned by the PiS regime, for example, the film about Walesa. I cannot speak seriously because we are too pompous, said Rafal Ziemkiewicz.
Pavel Lisitsky also noted that the new government did not even try to reach an agreement with the president on legislative changes. – Actually, Tusk could have prepared a draft law and tried to contact the president, who was treated rudely by PiS. Andrzej Duda's speech at the swearing in of the government also sounded quite friendly. He noted that there was not even a minimal attempt. – No, there were even insulting signals addressed to the president. Such rudeness, just showing that we don't respect any law, we let bald people go, we don't care about anything. It is not surprising that court referees got sick and no one wants to make an entry in the National Court Register – added Ziemkiewicz.
– In 2016, Adam Bodnar was the ombudsman, and then he argued that the minister in charge of public media was an unconstitutional situation. Now Bartholomew Sienkiewicz has done the exact same thing and now everything is legal, right? – recalls Pavel Lisitsky.
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