The attack on public media is underway! After demonstrating that the Minister of Culture does not have the right to appoint the board of directors of Telewizja Polska, and that the resolution cannot replace the law, those in power use another trick: now they want to appropriate the media by liquidating them. This action is still illegal, it is another strong, illegal lockpick. The Constitutional Tribunal clearly warned against such an attempt in a recently issued security measure. The rule of law continues to be destroyed and the constitution violated. It is impossible to liquidate Telewizja Polska without changing the law. Unfortunately, the government majority wants to break the law again
– says TVP President Michał Adamczyk in the statement we publish.
He further states:
The legal status on which we rely since the beginning of this unprecedented attack on public media in the history of the Third Polish Republic is clear: in accordance with the Broadcasting Act, only the National Media Council has the right to decide who is in charge of TVP, Polish radio and the Polish Press Agency. The provisions of the Companies Code, as a lower level law, do not apply here. You cannot simply liquidate an entity established by law. That is why we continue to stand against lawlessness. I ask all people of goodwill, defenders of the rule of law, to continue fighting together in defense of the applicable law and the public media, which the new authorities want to erase, remove and liquidate.
We are witnessing what many have warned about. Their plan is simple and clear. The money after the liquidation of the public media must go to large international media groups. The government will pay off its election debt, profits will go abroad and people at Polish Television, Polish Radio and the Polish News Agency will lose their jobs.
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Source: wPolityce