Mechanisms should be developed to return public television to Poland’s recipients, said Łukasz Rzepecki, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland. The deputy head of the PSL-TD club, Marek Sawicki, pointed out that the dispute over public media will not be resolved unless there is a consensus committee that will prepare a complete reform of the courts.
The situation in the public media was one of the topics of Saturday’s “Breakfast in Trójka” on the third program of Polish Radio.
During the broadcast, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland Łukasz Rzepecki accused the government of breaking the law.
You have violated the Constitution and caused anarchy in the public media. You take full responsibility for what has happened in Poland since Wednesday. You have violently and illegally taken over public television, which should serve all citizens, and in fact today Poles – several million people, especially the elderly – do not have access to a channel like TVP Info.
– he said.
He also emphasized that President Andrzej Duda is open to cooperation.
Mechanisms should be developed as soon as possible to return public television to Polish television sets
– he pointed out.
There is no excuse
According to the deputy chairman of the Sejm, Krzysztof Bosak (Confederation), “the appropriation of public media by PiS does not justify acting without a legal basis.”
Previously, when the government changed, the new majority usually presented a media law. This law changed the method of appointing public media authorities, usually in a way that favored the new coalition, and new authorities were appointed. Here the new governing coalition has decided to skip a stage, namely the adoption of the law, which, according to many lawyers – whose opinion I agree – means that the changes will be implemented illegally and the new authorities will be introduced by force. without legal basis. The court will face a huge test to determine whether it will incriminate these authorities
– he said.
New Left Vice Chairman Andrzej Szejna pointed out that PiS has made decisions about the legal system over the past eight years that violate the constitution.
For two weeks, when he had the so-called “Two-Week Government”, there was so much hate, hatred and sloppiness in the public media that the Sejm called on Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz to take action. Of course, there is a lot of legal debate here. There are different opinions, but what Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz did was simply a sensible, clever access to the legal loophole, which consists in involving PiS in its amendments and violations of the Constitution and the provisions regarding National Broadcasting Council withdrew. , which removes the illegal right to appoint media authorities through competition, and leaves a legal loophole
– he assessed.
During communism and until 1992, radio and television were state property
– recalled Jarosław Sellin (PiS).
The Prime Minister appointed the head of the radio commission. However, in 1992 the Polish state passed the Broadcasting Act and since 1993 we have had public media, not state media. The Broadcasting Act established the National Broadcasting Council to decide who will govern the public media. Over the past thirty years, no prime minister, minister or member of the executive has ever dared to directly appoint or dismiss the heads of the public media. This was done for the first time in thirty years by Colonel of the Secret Services Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, who was delegated by Prime Minister Donald Tusk as Minister of Culture to carry out this task.
– he said.
““Nobody Believes Anyone”
The deputy head of the PSL-TD club, Marek Sawicki, pointed out that “after eight years of legal and judicial reforms that have taken place in Poland, no one believes anyone anymore.”
Today, one side is questioning the decisions of the other side, and unless there is a new round table, a new consensus committee that will prepare a complete reform – from the lowest courts to the highest courts – we will not get out of this.
– he said.
He admitted that he had spoken to lawyers and “they are not entirely sure whether Minister Sienkiewicz’s decision has a full legal basis.”
In my opinion, this will not only be decided by the court registry, but in the normal course of events also by the judge, because it will not end just like that (…). If there is the will – and I hear that there is also good will on the part of the President – the parties to the dispute must sit down at this time, and it cannot be the case that MPs suddenly say that these media are ours and that is why we defend them. The media is not ours. The media are citizens
– he concluded.
The Sejm adopted a resolution on the restoration of the rule of law and the impartiality and reliability of the public media and the Polish Press Agency. The Ministry of Culture announced in a statement that the head of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, citing the Commercial Code, resigned on December 19 this year. current chairmen of the boards of directors of Telewizja Polska, Polish Radio and Polish Press Agency and their supervisory boards. The minister appointed new supervisory boards of companies, which in turn appointed new boards of directors of companies. The Minister of Culture and National Heritage appointed Marek Błoński as president of PAP. The Minister of Culture has dismissed the current president of PAP, Wojciech Surmacz.
Since Wednesday, PiS parliamentarians have been staying at the headquarters of the Polish Press Agency, which – as they indicate – is carrying out a parliamentary intervention.
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Source: wPolityce