“We are here in Telewizja Polska, which is currently under threat, which will be taken over and effectively destroyed in its current form, to eliminate one of the basic conditions of democracy in Poland, namely media pluralism,” PiS said. President Jarosław Kaczyński, present at the TVP headquarters in ul. Woronicza in Warsaw.
On Tuesday evening, the Sejm passed an outrageous resolution attacking the public media! More than a hundred Law and Justice MPs who had gone to TVP headquarters to defend freedom of expression did not participate in the vote.
We will not give it back, we will defend it
– said Jarosław Kaczyński during his speech. PiS politicians chanted: “Free media!”
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“There is no democracy without media pluralism.
First of all, it is a defense of democracy, because there is no democracy without media pluralism and strong anti-government media. In any democracy there must be strong anti-government media, and it so happens that in Poland these are public media. This will not change in the near future and we must defend these media because we are defending democracy and defending citizens’ right to access information
– said the president of PiS, present at the TVP headquarters, in a conversation with a reporter from the website tvp.info.
I know our opponents believe that a good citizen is an ill-informed citizen. This came out during the vetting, this came out at the Institute of National Remembrance and other historical research. This has come up on many other occasions. They have always regarded the fact that ordinary people have any knowledge about the elites and their past as something scandalous, that it should not be that way, that an ordinary person should not actually know anything. We, as in many democracies in the world, the most important, believe exactly the opposite: that citizens should know everything. Often even aware of personal matters if they can influence behavior in public life. Hence our defense
– he explained.
But today there is also a broader context for this defense, because the defense of Polish democracy is also the defense of Polish independence. We know what is happening in the EU, that there are German-French plans aimed at centralizing Europe and essentially depriving countries that could endanger this domination of their independence, to such an extent that it will be difficult to to talk about the existence of a state. . If all points of the projects were met, Poland could easily be deprived of any influence on important matters in our country, that is, it would practically cease to be a country. We must do everything and use every method to prevent this. And hence our protest, because Poles who are not aware of what is happening can unconsciously agree to such things, and the tendency to treat the EU like a good uncle is an extremely naive, even childish tendency, but unfortunately we it spread widely
– the PiS president further explained.
We think that this is unfortunately a common phenomenon in the history of Poland. I would prefer Polish history to be happier, but it is what it is and almost every generation has such a moment of trial, I think for our generation in a broad sense, because there are people here who are completely young and there are people like me, that is to say, old, but everyone, we are a group that wants to defend Poland, defend democracy and civil rights, we want to be citizens, not residents of an area inhabited by Poles but ruled from outside . And this is what unites us, even though the age difference is probably almost half a century
– he continued.
I think Tusk is capable, although he would certainly prefer it to be otherwise. We’ll see, there will be a test now, but I think she is capable because she has a certain task. In my deepest belief, he came here with a specific task and it was nothing other than carrying out the project I already talked about here. He knows that in return honor and a truly great career await him, and failure to complete this task essentially means the end of him as a politician.
– said Jarosław Kaczyński.
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Source: wPolityce