“Strong people” stormed Woronicza. A man from the special services – Bartłomiej Stankiewicz – who is currently Minister of Culture, announced a change of power at TVP, Polskie Radio and PAP, violating the legal order and referring to the provisions of the Commercial Code. The Polish media were silenced in one fell swoop. At the same time, the deputy head of the European Commission, Vera Jourowa, is in Warsaw to discuss the rule of law with the speakers of the Sejm and the Senate and the Minister of Justice. So far, none of these people have noticed any violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland or the right of citizens to information. This is what the land of Tusk looks like! They will cross all boundaries. But this time no one will claim Poland. The task will be completed! And it wasn’t about freedom at all!
All parademocratic revolutions proceed in the same way. After a long process of demoralization, destabilization takes place, aimed at causing street riots, protests and aversion to the authorities. Then society is brought into a state of crisis and the media is controlled in such a way that public opinion itself wants a change of power and in democratic elections chooses a ‘political savior’ who will bring the desired freedom. This is where the normalization phase begins. A new government takes over the country, introduces its own solutions and gives new roles to society. Exactly what they had never wanted to accept before.
Donald Tusk’s smiling Poland showed its true, murderous face in the first week after taking power. He goes ruthlessly and brutally. Today burglary in the Polish television buildingThe entry into the president’s office by a man nominated by Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz and the incitement of parliamentarians exercising the parliamentary intervention provided for in the law are just a foretaste of what will happen. **Such a situation has not occurred since martial law in Poland. Poles were cut off from information broadcast by Telewizja Polska. The broadcast of TVP Info was suspended. The tvp.info portal and news channel streaming were blocked. The signal from TV Channel One was redirected to broadcast. No afternoon news was broadcast.
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All based on a short statement by Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, who decided to change the authorities of all public media. He justified this scandalous decision with the provisions of the Companies Code. At the same time, he considered the assurance issued by the Constitutional Court to be “legally ineffective”.
On December 19, 2023, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, as the body exercising the ownership rights of the Ministry of Finance, which owns 100% of the shares in companies, dismissed the current chairmen of the boards of directors of Telewizja Polska SA, Polskie Radio . SA and Polska Agencja Prasowa SA and the Supervisory Board. The minister has appointed new supervisory boards of the above-mentioned companies. Companies that have appointed new management boards.
Actions are unlawful for many reasons. Invoking the Commercial Code in the case of public media, whose activities are permitted by law and the Constitution itself, is a clear violation of the law. But it certainly won’t be the last! After all, there were announcements about the takeover of institutions with the participation of “strong people”, it was predicted that “PiS supporters would jump out of the windows” and that the most active program of the Tusk government would be “Cell+”. First: cleansing the media and suppressing pluralism. The message on TVN and TVP is the same: friendly to the authorities.
What does Adam Bodnar say about this – a great advocate of freedom and today Minister of Justice? What about the chairman of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia, who yesterday claimed that the resolution cannot change the media order in Poland? What does Vera Jourova, who researches the lack of rule of law in Poland, say about this? They are all meeting today in Warsaw. Will they notice the methods of Tusk’s regime? Will they respond to breaking the law, destroying the rule of law and trampling on citizens’ right to information? We have never experienced such a scandal in any democratic country. The lack of response from the European Commission will be the final signal that regime reality is fully accepted in the EU, as long as the concept of the state fits into the EU ideology. It wasn’t about freedom! It was about the effective implementation of specific interests.
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Source: wPolityce